Oliver Barnes
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2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4 Jun
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The reason I think the reason I'm confident that it will that will go through is that I think nowadays when people go about doing big deals, the first thought they have before they've even got together in the room and started negotiating is what is our Trump strategy?
What is the strategy with the administration?
Right.
And it's no coincidence that a company like NextEra was among the companies that donated to Trump's ballroom, beautiful ballroom.
So that's just one like little leg of I'm sure what is a much larger strategy to try and convince the Trump administration of the merits of that.
And on this show before we've we've discussed the railroad merger that happened.
And that now is beginning to go through its regulatory process.
And it's maybe not quite as smooth as everyone imagined it would be.
Right.
And I'm sure this won't be easy, but they will have a very detailed, thought out strategy of how to convince the Trump administration and also how to convince the local regulators.
Yeah, rather than an outright deal.
in the same way we've been talking a lot about scale throughout this conversation, in tech, in a way, the driving factor is speed, is that the technology is evolving at such a rapid pace.
You know, we went from kind of GPT-4 to GPT-5, and like, now people are like, we're going to get AGI at some point, you know.
Artificial General Intelligence.
Exactly.
Our robot overlord.
Let's not get into whether or not that's going to happen or not.
But, you know, so if you're a tech company, right, and if you're one of the, you know, the big players in AI, you have to think about, okay, if I'm
buying something if i had a regulatory process that takes 18 months what i'm buying might be irrelevant by the time i actually get to buy it and own it right and and that's what's driving a lot of these kind of acquihires or new structures around deals but the thing that's so striking i think that this deal made us think about i think for the first time is just how like
AI, to us as the average consumer, it's a digital phenomenon, right?
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