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Nick Martell

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The Best One Yet
🧻 “TP to AI” — Toto toilets’ tech pivot. Minnesota’s CEO moment. Graza’s olive oil envy. +Spend-vesting

And that's why that tiny division with just 7% of Toto's sales accounted for 42% of their total profits last year.

The Best One Yet
🧻 “TP to AI” — Toto toilets’ tech pivot. Minnesota’s CEO moment. Graza’s olive oil envy. +Spend-vesting

It's the new profit puppy, electrostatic chucks.

The Best One Yet
🧻 “TP to AI” — Toto toilets’ tech pivot. Minnesota’s CEO moment. Graza’s olive oil envy. +Spend-vesting

And that's why Goldman Sachs just upgraded Japan's Toto toilet stock to a buy, because technically...

The Best One Yet
🧻 “TP to AI” — Toto toilets’ tech pivot. Minnesota’s CEO moment. Graza’s olive oil envy. +Spend-vesting

They're now an AI company.

The Best One Yet
🧻 “TP to AI” — Toto toilets’ tech pivot. Minnesota’s CEO moment. Graza’s olive oil envy. +Spend-vesting

I think we can just say Toto.

The Best One Yet
🧻 “TP to AI” — Toto toilets’ tech pivot. Minnesota’s CEO moment. Graza’s olive oil envy. +Spend-vesting

We don't have to say Toto.

The Best One Yet
🧻 “TP to AI” — Toto toilets’ tech pivot. Minnesota’s CEO moment. Graza’s olive oil envy. +Spend-vesting

You just want to say bidet.

The Best One Yet
🧻 “TP to AI” — Toto toilets’ tech pivot. Minnesota’s CEO moment. Graza’s olive oil envy. +Spend-vesting

You can say bidet again, Jack.

The Best One Yet
🧻 “TP to AI” — Toto toilets’ tech pivot. Minnesota’s CEO moment. Graza’s olive oil envy. +Spend-vesting

So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies?

The Best One Yet
🧻 “TP to AI” — Toto toilets’ tech pivot. Minnesota’s CEO moment. Graza’s olive oil envy. +Spend-vesting

Clean it up over at Toto.

The Best One Yet
🧻 “TP to AI” — Toto toilets’ tech pivot. Minnesota’s CEO moment. Graza’s olive oil envy. +Spend-vesting

Because of AI, every company is becoming a chip company.

The Best One Yet
🧻 “TP to AI” — Toto toilets’ tech pivot. Minnesota’s CEO moment. Graza’s olive oil envy. +Spend-vesting

Yetis, here's the secret sauce of capitalism.

The Best One Yet
🧻 “TP to AI” — Toto toilets’ tech pivot. Minnesota’s CEO moment. Graza’s olive oil envy. +Spend-vesting

With great profits come a great competition.

The Best One Yet
🧻 “TP to AI” — Toto toilets’ tech pivot. Minnesota’s CEO moment. Graza’s olive oil envy. +Spend-vesting

Three years ago, we said on this pod that NVIDIA made 95% of the chips needed for AI computing.

The Best One Yet
🧻 “TP to AI” — Toto toilets’ tech pivot. Minnesota’s CEO moment. Graza’s olive oil envy. +Spend-vesting

Well, that monopoly has resulted in astonishing profit growth from $5 billion three years ago for NVIDIA to $100 billion last year.

The Best One Yet
🧻 “TP to AI” — Toto toilets’ tech pivot. Minnesota’s CEO moment. Graza’s olive oil envy. +Spend-vesting

Now, every company with a single computer science major on the staff sees NVIDIA's profits and says, how can we get in on that?

The Best One Yet
🧻 “TP to AI” — Toto toilets’ tech pivot. Minnesota’s CEO moment. Graza’s olive oil envy. +Spend-vesting

And that's

The Best One Yet
🧻 “TP to AI” — Toto toilets’ tech pivot. Minnesota’s CEO moment. Graza’s olive oil envy. +Spend-vesting

is why Google launched TPUs, their version of NVIDIA's GPUs.

The Best One Yet
🧻 “TP to AI” — Toto toilets’ tech pivot. Minnesota’s CEO moment. Graza’s olive oil envy. +Spend-vesting

And it's why Amazon, Apple, and Meta are all making or testing their own AI chips as well.

The Best One Yet
🧻 “TP to AI” — Toto toilets’ tech pivot. Minnesota’s CEO moment. Graza’s olive oil envy. +Spend-vesting

Or Jack, what about Rivian and Tesla?