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Friedberg

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1663 total appearances

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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom

It's still generating revenue for them.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom

And I think that the, remember, the cost of electricity and the cost of running the data center is still an expense in that period.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom

So all of that shows up as an operating expense.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom

So if it's generating negative profit, negative gross profit, the market sees that.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom

And I will say one more thing that I think is really important.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom

And they would turn it off.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom

You get, look, there's no hidden information here.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom

Burry's implication that they are cooking the books or hiding accounting is completely false because all of the accounting is apparent in the cash flow statement and in the balance sheet.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom

Remember, companies have three financial statements, an income statement, a balance sheet, and a cash flow statement.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom

The cash flow statement reconciles the income statement and the balance sheet, makes the linkage, and it shows you all the cash that's going in and out of the company.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom

And many analysts and many investors that are intelligent and do their homework will look at the cash flow statement and they will see the capex.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom

They will see all the investments going out and they will calculate a number typically called free cash flow that will allow them to estimate the true cash generation of the business in a particular period and make an assessment of should they be valued on free cash flow or should they be valued on the gap standard of EBITDA?

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom

And the investor has the choice on how they want to value the company.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom

And Burry is incorrect in thinking that they're hiding anything because it's all there.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom

They're following GAAP standards.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom

And then investors make a market.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom

And they all decide, what do I want to value this company on?

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom

Cash flow?

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom

EBITDA.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom

Let them choose.