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John Foley

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224 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Can GameStop buy eBay?

There was Porsche and Volkswagen.

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Can GameStop buy eBay?

More examples in the U.S., I think.

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Can GameStop buy eBay?

Also, the Rio Tinto and BHP Billets and the Miners, although it didn't happen, it was on the table, I think.

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Can GameStop buy eBay?

It was something that Rio Tinto thought about doing to BHP.

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Can GameStop buy eBay?

That's a great question.

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Can GameStop buy eBay?

So NVIDIA, so this company, Cerebras, tried to go public a year ago, a year and a half ago, and it didn't really manage it.

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And it would have had a valuation probably of about maybe $10 billion.

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Can GameStop buy eBay?

And now it's got a valuation of nearly $50 billion.

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Can GameStop buy eBay?

And it's got OpenAI as a customer, which it didn't have before.

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Can GameStop buy eBay?

And it's doing, by all accounts, pretty well.

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Can GameStop buy eBay?

And part of that is because NVIDIA is kind of a victim of its own success.

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Everyone wants NVIDIA's AI chips, but it can't make enough of them.

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Can GameStop buy eBay?

And maybe it doesn't really want to.

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Because obviously scarcity has value.

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Can GameStop buy eBay?

But because everyone is desperate to get these chips, they're now starting to consider alternatives.

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So Google is making its own chips.

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Amazon is making its own chips.

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And Cerebrus is increasingly a serious alternative.

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I think we should be alert to the idea that NVIDIA has competition that didn't seem to be there before.

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And we should not be surprised by that because, as you say, NVIDIA has, what, 75%-ish gross margin?