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Barton: Marketing spend will shift from Meta to AI agents and Shopify
“So that 20% that I'm spending on marketing to, you know, maybe it was meta, is now gonna, like, that profit pool is gonna be more going toward a Shopify or the actual agent players themselves, OpenAI or Gemini.”
Barton: Any US computer-based job will likely be automated
“My view broadly is that any job that exists in the US where you work at a computer at some point will likely can be automated, including my job.”
Barton: AI-driven margin expansion could spark a multi-year stock market run
“Because AI is going to benefit all these companies and the stock market's going to go up. And we might be at the front of a multi-year amazing run in the stock market because these companies revenues are going to grow faster. Their costs are not going to be as…”
Barton: Cloud provider revenues are 100% dependent on GPU chip supply
“We're at a point where your cloud revenues are 100% dependent upon how many chips you get.”
Barton: OpenAI has 800M WAU with engagement rivaling Instagram
“OpenAI's got, what, like, eight hundred million weekly active users. Spending, like, spending, by my estimates, close to the amount of time every day that is spent on Instagram.”
Barton predicts Meta will 3x in market cap in five years
“Like, I think Facebook is going to be, you know, a three X in five years.”
Barton: Melvin Capital fell 50% in two weeks during GameStop squeeze
“Before I worked at Code Two, I was working at Melvin Capital. And so, you know, many of you guys probably heard of Melvin as the hedge fund that was short GameStop. And so I lived through this period where we went from, at the time, probably The best performin…”
Coatue's worst-case financial model for AppLovin showed at least 3x upside
“You literally could not make the discount cash flow analysis, in your worst case scenario, be less than like a three X.”
Barton: Meta GPU recommendation upgrades drove a 15% Instagram usage jump
“And if you look at Instagram time spent, basically it was flat for, I don't know, maybe 18 months to six months ago. And now, you know, you would spend 40 minutes a day, and now that's gone up like 15% in just the past six months, because they basically took t…”
Barton: AI's current impact is slowing hiring rather than immediate firings
“People aren't, there are some example, some extreme examples, but it's not that people are getting fired today or their jobs are being automated today. It's that the hiring's slowing.”
Barton: Google and OpenAI Pay Reddit ~$50M Annually for Training Data
“I think it's ballpark, fifty million dollars. For Google, so Google pays Reddit, fifty million dollars a year to kind of, ah, have trained in the past on it, but B, have updated data, and, ah, ChatGPT does the same thing.”
Barton: Mattel stock rose 6% after OpenAI DevDay mention
“Like, they got mentioned in this thing, Mattel, the toy company, stock went up six percent, like, in a second.”
Barton: AI Infrastructure and Energy Stocks Outperform Mega-Cap AI Winners Like Microsoft and Meta
“AI infrastructure, right? Like the build out of AI, the data centers, the constellation energy, the nuclear, the power needed to, You know, power these GPUs. Those stocks are up, like, 50. And then you would say, you know, well, Microsoft's, like, probably an …”