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Niccolo De Masi

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Bloomberg Tech
Big Tech’s AI Debt Is Raising Investors’ Eyebrows

Well, it's a match made in heaven because, to your point, momentum.

Bloomberg Tech
Big Tech’s AI Debt Is Raising Investors’ Eyebrows

So things that are trendy are where we've seen SPACs flock to.

Bloomberg Tech
Big Tech’s AI Debt Is Raising Investors’ Eyebrows

Think back to SPAC 1.0 or 2.0, depending how long you've been following the industry.

Bloomberg Tech
Big Tech’s AI Debt Is Raising Investors’ Eyebrows

EVs, we saw Nikola Go Public.

Bloomberg Tech
Big Tech’s AI Debt Is Raising Investors’ Eyebrows

We saw DraftKings when sports betting was starting to pick up steam.

Bloomberg Tech
Big Tech’s AI Debt Is Raising Investors’ Eyebrows

So as we see the transition, as we saw a rush of companies, whether it was reverse mergers over the summer, creating digital asset treasuries, or now SPACs, it really is kind of latching onto the latest theme.

Bloomberg Tech
Big Tech’s AI Debt Is Raising Investors’ Eyebrows

And then we've seen that

Bloomberg Tech
Big Tech’s AI Debt Is Raising Investors’ Eyebrows

parlay or turn into quantum, just given that the majority of companies that are already publicly listed were quantum de-SPACs back in 2020 and 2021.

Bloomberg Tech
Big Tech’s AI Debt Is Raising Investors’ Eyebrows

Well, they're hurting.

Bloomberg Tech
Big Tech’s AI Debt Is Raising Investors’ Eyebrows

Really, when you look at the whole pitch of DATS over the summer was,

Bloomberg Tech
Big Tech’s AI Debt Is Raising Investors’ Eyebrows

we can trade it a premium to the actual cryptocurrencies we're holding and we'll continue to sell shares or convertible debt to fund that well those premiums are evaporating a number of these companies are trading below that net asset value so the big question is if the whole market is propped up by companies selling shares or converts to buy cryptocurrencies well when we enter a bear market what happens next and we're seeing a lot of this kind of falling down quite a bit

Bloomberg Tech
Big Tech’s AI Debt Is Raising Investors’ Eyebrows

So turduckens historically are chicken stuffed in duck, stuffed in turkey.

Bloomberg Tech
Big Tech’s AI Debt Is Raising Investors’ Eyebrows

So if you look at the graphic, the crypto is the chicken stuffed in the duck, which is the treasury company, which then gets stuffed in the stack.

Bloomberg Tech
Big Tech’s AI Debt Is Raising Investors’ Eyebrows

Is that not delicious?

Bloomberg Tech
Big Tech’s AI Debt Is Raising Investors’ Eyebrows

I've never had one.

Bloomberg Tech
Big Tech’s AI Debt Is Raising Investors’ Eyebrows

Supposedly they're awesome if they're done well.

Bloomberg Tech
Big Tech’s AI Debt Is Raising Investors’ Eyebrows

But the comparison from Peter...

Bloomberg Tech
Big Tech’s AI Debt Is Raising Investors’ Eyebrows

It seems pretty spot on because you're taking kind of a concept, if you will, with cryptocurrencies, you're putting it into ADATs, which were all the rage, and then it's like, okay, well, why don't we marry those with SPACs?

Bloomberg Tech
Big Tech’s AI Debt Is Raising Investors’ Eyebrows

And we saw that and are continuing to see that play out.

Bloomberg Tech
Big Tech’s AI Debt Is Raising Investors’ Eyebrows

We'll see if it...