Nvidia

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10 statements across 6 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement May 14, 2023 by Varun Mayya · said 54 times in 13 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Nikhil Kamath (19), Tanmay Bhat (10), Varun Mayya (5), Aravind Srinivas (5), Chamath Palihapitiya (3), Carl Pei (3), Niko Bonatsos (2), Nikesh Arora (2)

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Everything said about Nvidia, oldest first

May 14, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mayya: Nvidia will maintain a monopoly over AI compute
“Nvidia will own everything. That's the only monopoly in any market that I've ever seen.”
Varun Mayya May 14, 2023 ▶ 57:49 Ep #4 | WTF is ChatGPT: Heaven or Hell? | w/ Nikhil, Varun Mayya, Tanmay, Umang & Aprameya · Nikhil Kamath
May 14, 2023 bearish
Opinion
Kamath: AI upside is already fully priced into Nvidia and Microsoft
“Definitely Microsoft and Nvidia is priced in. They've corrected the least. They're sitting at lofty valuations. So you'll have to pick the next guy to make money.”
Nikhil Kamath May 14, 2023 ▶ 57:24 Ep #4 | WTF is ChatGPT: Heaven or Hell? | w/ Nikhil, Varun Mayya, Tanmay, Umang & Aprameya · Nikhil Kamath
Nov 27, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hardware rivals struggle against NVIDIA because of its dominant software stack
“Training is dominated by NVIDIA at the moment. There's going to be other players, but they have a hard time competing because of the software stack, basically. Their hardware may be really good, but the software stack is is a challenge.”
Yann LeCun Nov 27, 2024 ▶ 1:20:07 WTF is Artificial Intelligence Really? | Yann LeCun x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF Ep #4 · Nikhil Kamath
Mar 23, 2025 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Aravind Srinivas: Google is the only company full-stack independent of Nvidia
“The only one who's managed to do this, I would say, is Google. They built their own chips, they built their own software around it called JAX, and then they built their own accelerated linear algebra library called XLA. And then, you know, they have their own …”
Aravind Srinivas Mar 23, 2025 ▶ 1:49:04 Nikhil Kamath ft. Perplexity CEO, Aravind Srinivas | WTF Online Ep 1. · Nikhil Kamath
Mar 23, 2025 neutral
Insight
Aravind Srinivas: Nvidia GPUs succeeded because AI scaled through neural networks
“If AI was not neural nets, then GPUs wouldn't have mattered. But AI happened to be just basically neural nets at scale. And so all the primitives they built, all the software stack they built ended up being, like, The core foundational building blocks for neur…”
Aravind Srinivas Mar 23, 2025 ▶ 1:48:41 Nikhil Kamath ft. Perplexity CEO, Aravind Srinivas | WTF Online Ep 1. · Nikhil Kamath
Mar 23, 2025 negative
Insight
Srinivas: Training neural networks solely on daily stock opening prices is useless
“If you're training it on the raw stock price, let's say you just have a bunch of numbers of the stock price of Nvidia opening price every single day. Sure, it's not going to be useful on its own, because there are so many other factors that influence the price…”
Aravind Srinivas Mar 23, 2025 ▶ 42:21 Nikhil Kamath ft. Perplexity CEO, Aravind Srinivas | WTF Online Ep 1. · Nikhil Kamath
Mar 23, 2025
Disclosure
Srinivas: Perplexity built custom Nvidia runtimes and uses Cerebras chips
“A lot of the open source models that we serve ourselves with some fine tuning, ah, we, we've tried to serve it with extreme efficiency, like we wrote our own runtimes for NVIDIA chips, and we used other chips like Cerebras, and that helps us to, like, make the…”
Aravind Srinivas Mar 23, 2025 ▶ 1:14:56 Nikhil Kamath ft. Perplexity CEO, Aravind Srinivas | WTF Online Ep 1. · Nikhil Kamath
Apr 26, 2025 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Pei: Chipmakers earn 40-45% gross margins while Foxconn earns roughly 10%
“Nvidia, I don't know, is it or Qualcomm's, 4060, 40, 45%, I think, just declared, yeah. Gross margin. But Foxconn is, I think, 10%.”
Carl Pei Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 2:10:46 Ep #23 | WTF are Consumer Electronics? | Nikhil ft. Carl Pei, Rahul Sharma & Amit Khatri · Nikhil Kamath
Jun 28, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Arora: Private Enterprise Domains Hold 10x More Data Than the Public Web
“I think there's 10 times more information in private domains, which is not available in the public domain. All the drug discovery data, which is sitting in every drug company that has made any drug in the past, it's all proprietary data, right? All the intelle…”
Nikesh Arora Jun 28, 2025 ▶ 30:22 From Ghaziabad to Silicon Valley: Nikhil Kamath x Nikesh Arora | People by WTF | Ep. 11 · Nikhil Kamath
Mar 11, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Staniszewski: Skeptical of valuations for GPU and inference providers built on NVIDIA
“It's all the, like, GPU providers that are built on top of NVIDIA that, like, help you get Effectively inference capacity. Like I'm a little bit skeptic on some evaluations there”
Mati Staniszewski Mar 11, 2026 ▶ 36:53 The $11B Bet That Voice Will Replace Everything | Mati Staniszewski x Nikhil Kamath | WTF Online · Nikhil Kamath
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