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Robert Schiffman

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105 total appearances

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Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

If Oracle is able to build a $130 billion book, Google can build whatever book it wants.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

This is what they taught me in math camp.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

The weighted average cost of debt capital for all these names, whether it's Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, is effectively zero.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

Why do you have AA and AAA balance sheets if you're not going to use them?

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

I think this is extraordinarily visionary.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

These companies have been prepping for years for greater investment opportunities, and now they finally see it.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

I think it's just such a bullish sign for this market.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

And from, again, the bondholder perspective, this is not equity holders being wary about multiples.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

Bondholders, I don't think, are gonna be able to get enough, and they're gonna be able to do it along every single part of the curve.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

And like you said, this isn't just gonna be dollars.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

They're going to the Swiss franc market, the pound market.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

I wouldn't be shocked if they went back

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

to the Euro market, or even to issue yen, I think there's going to be demand all over the globe for high-quality Mount Rushmore-style credits like this.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

Yeah, listen, I think this is the tip of the iceberg.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

I actually think Bloomberg News is underestimating how much hyperscaler spending is going to be this year.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

They put out a number of $650 billion just for this year alone.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

So that's just the four, right?

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

I think it's going to be closer to 750 when you include names like Oracle and CoreWeave.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

And if you think about cumulatively, how much spending has gone up, in the beginning of last year, we estimated 2025 through 2030, we're going to see $2 trillion of cumulative spending.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

We brought that number to $3 trillion in the middle of the year, and now we're up above $4 trillion.