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Lou Whiteman

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Oracle Lays Off 30,000 and Nike Falls Flat Once Again

I still don't think it's going to get my attention as an investment.

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Oracle Lays Off 30,000 and Nike Falls Flat Once Again

To be fair, that is intentional, because that is what they said, that, okay, we overdid that, we have to get back in good graces with wholesale.

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Oracle Lays Off 30,000 and Nike Falls Flat Once Again

It is partially intentional.

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Oracle Lays Off 30,000 and Nike Falls Flat Once Again

Whether or not it's a good long-term strategy, we'll see.

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Oracle Lays Off 30,000 and Nike Falls Flat Once Again

Yeah.

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Oracle Lays Off 30,000 and Nike Falls Flat Once Again

And isn't it funny how, look, I don't honestly know what's going on here.

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Oracle Lays Off 30,000 and Nike Falls Flat Once Again

I think six months ago, if you announced this because our AI is so great, the market might be cheering it.

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Oracle Lays Off 30,000 and Nike Falls Flat Once Again

And again, there's still, now there's the skepticism.

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Oracle Lays Off 30,000 and Nike Falls Flat Once Again

Look, all of these companies overhired during COVID.

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Oracle Lays Off 30,000 and Nike Falls Flat Once Again

I do think some of this is just the smokescreen, using the smokescreen of AI to kind of right-size, but...

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Oracle Lays Off 30,000 and Nike Falls Flat Once Again

Everything said here, they have a ton of capital commitments coming up.

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Oracle Lays Off 30,000 and Nike Falls Flat Once Again

A lot of the revenue sources is OpenAI and a lot of that RPO.

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Oracle Lays Off 30,000 and Nike Falls Flat Once Again

There is real questions about revenue, so they do need to cut corners.

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Oracle Lays Off 30,000 and Nike Falls Flat Once Again

Interesting thing, Travis, and we hinted at this before OpenAI.

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Oracle Lays Off 30,000 and Nike Falls Flat Once Again

I think right now, game theory would suggest that even if any of these hyperscalers are having second thoughts, their most rational move is to keep spending.

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Oracle Lays Off 30,000 and Nike Falls Flat Once Again

We can deep dive on that if you want, but even if you think it's a mistake, you almost have to keep spending right now.

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Oracle Lays Off 30,000 and Nike Falls Flat Once Again

I wonder if that is true.

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Oracle Lays Off 30,000 and Nike Falls Flat Once Again

We don't know that's true.

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Oracle Lays Off 30,000 and Nike Falls Flat Once Again

Maybe they don't see it as a mistake.

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Oracle Lays Off 30,000 and Nike Falls Flat Once Again

The whole premise might be false.