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GameStop eyes eBay for fifty six billion dollars in cash and stock and an audacious bid for a company four times at size. eBay says the review that offer plus AI chipmaker Cerebraus has been looking to raise as much as three and a half billion dollars for a potential IPO later this month, part of a growing cohort looking to challenge in video and open AI raises more than four billion dollars for a new joint venture that aims to help businesses adopt it's AI software. A first free
check in on that extraordinary MNA news. The first dropped on Friday and continues to move shares now. GameStop looking to buy a company.
Four times its size.
GameStop currently off by seven percent, eBay up by more than six percent. But we have to get the inside track with Rineberg. Reporter Cecilia Denastasio with an extraordinary story and one that the market tries to understand whether it's for real or not? Can you just talk us about the technicalities. Ryan Cohen here is offering for eBay.
Sure, So Ryan Cohen is offering a deal to purchase eBay, which is, like you said, many times the size of game Stop along with twenty billion dollars. He says he has received a highly confident letter from TD Bank to acquire. Analysts are unsure this deal will ever go through, but Ryan Cohen says that if he manages to purchase eBay, it would make a lot more money.
Make a lot more money. Okay, let's take this for real. That he's good for the money he's able to afford. What synergies are analysts kind of trying to pass through.
At the moment.
GameStop has really struggled over the last several years because gamers are increasingly purchasing their wares in online stores like Valves, Steam, and so GameStop has shrunk its footprint in their retail marketplace. But Ryan Cohen has tried a lot of different strategies to make it work. He's tried esports, he's tried e commerce, which is from his background as the co founder of Chewi. And while he's managed to you know, help the business
sustain a little bit more than people had hoped. Nothing's really stuck. eBay gives him the opportunity, he says, to compete with Amazon potentially, which of course is very very ambitious in e commerce.
Well, Jamie I and Oni over eBay has been impressing investors with his turnaround. He's been leaning into AI, He's been leaning into partnerships with Meto, He's been thinking about M and A himself with deepop. Just how do we understand eBay is digesting this and thinking about it from its own business and shitholder perspective.
eBay is evaluating the bid.
I think, you know, analysts again are not sure whether the math is mathing when it comes to Gamestop's ability to purchase the significantly larger company, and we'll see what happens. Ryan Cohen has not given specific details on what he imagines the synergies to be or what he imagines the combined company to look like.
I think truists said this is stunning, and they're skeptical. I mean, just in terms of how M and A gets done. Letters from TD Banks saying they're good for it. Ultimately are going to be dependent on the debt markets here, but GameStop has always shocked the markets with its mean stock potential, with roaring Kitties love and even with sky on capital well now pivoted more into a substat newsletter.
But the guy who was known for trades on the mortgage market back in two thousand and eight, Michael Barry, is coming out saying this could be a really good story.
It could be a really good story.
Also, what people have pointed out that GameStop loves attention. They make a lot of flashy moves. Chief executive Officer Ryan Cohen posts very controversial things on social media about the American business market. He has a lot of like moving breaking strategies that he's excited to express, and you know that's worked for GameStop. Game Stop managed to raise some significant money from the meme stock frenzy and that's
allowed it to sustain a little bit longer. So who knows, this could be a really exciting, fresh, strange way to keep game Stop going, or it could be like some of the analysts are saying, a little bit improbable.
Well, you're going to be across it. It was a busy weekend for Cecilia Denasalgier. We're pleased that she joins us to break it all down today. Meanwhile, well, let's just take a look at the broader markets, because tech stocks are again outperforming, but we're building on records that we set back on Friday. We're up about a quarter percent, but still in ASDA one hundred, as I say, at
a record. And it's not just what's happening over in America. Look, the AI trade is back on track and we're seeing that play out in Asia trading as well.
Ske Heinez extraordinary.
Moves for the high bandwidth memory maker up eleven percent. Samsung as well, up three point four percent, even as the company maybe having to navigate some sort of strike potential going on with the business. But records being set in Asia. Following through from what we saw in America comes last we can see more audacious m and A What are we going to see in terms of IPOs. Perfect person to talk it through is that Nancy Tanglish,
the CEO CIO of Laffatanglo Investments. Look, your TGLR ETF is already outperforming even the S and P five found in which we note is basically at or near record highs, you're outperforming by six percent, Nanci Is tech going to remain the dominant force here?
I think so, Caroline, thanks so much for having me. I do think so.
If you just think about what is driving margins on the SMP companies, it is either the technology companies themselves or the use of technology by old economy companies. One of the noteworthy earnings comments came from L three Harris where they said revenue per employee has increased this is CEO by almost twenty five percent over the last couple of years. So if you can produce more with less, then that is what we call productivity, and that will continue to.
Drive stock prices higher.
As we've seen in increasing earnings estimate revisions up.
Are you buying that's AI fueled productivity gains? There's such mixed messages BIS out of you read the bound of International Settlements. I said, they've seen about four percent productivity gains more generally, and that seems to be being sustained. But if L three House is seing twenty five percent, what more are these CEOs doing well?
So I think you have to listen to the companies.
My team sits on all the earnings calls and we develop themes out of those earnings calls and then we discuss them. And we're hearing it from a broad base across economic sector group of companies, not every company, but most companies. I mean, you even heard it from ge Vernova that said, yeah, we're benefiting from AI in the buildout, but we all want.
You also to know that we're utilizing AI to produce our productivity.
Our margins are output for employee as well and managing the supply chain. So I mean, just use ax ask B on Bloomberg and it can save you a colossal amount of time as an analyst if in fact you utilize it. So, I mean, we've been bitpounding the tech trade for about four years now on the theme of old economy companies pivoting to the new technologies and then in fact the companies that are the suppliers.
I think it continues, not forever, but for now.
What's been interesting is the sort of the haves and the have nots.
Now, I'm in no way going to say Metas not have not yet we can't write them off, but there what they don't have is cloud compute that they sell to others. They're busy investing in their own AI infrastructure. Meanwhile, Alphabet was applauded for the fact that it's investing, raising capital expenditure, but also able to benefit with the.
Growth of Google Cloud.
How are you seeing earnings play out, because both we've seen from Meta they are having to cut people, having to talk about laying off a sizeable amount of the workforce to be able to redeploy capital back into the AI infrastructure. Is that something I'm going to head time and time again, and who do we congratulate for it or not?
Well, so, I've talked about it quite a bit on your show that we got out of Meta. I just didn't like the business model. I didn't see the opportunity. We went into Spotify, which at the time was a good transaction. We were wrong about Meta to some extent, but we were right about Spotify, and we now think that we are somewhat vindicated on the Meta model because they aren't able to monetize AI in a way that Google and Amazon and even Microsoft are able to do.
They are able to improve their advertising business. But Mark Zuckerberg has made these colossal pivots and been wrong in the past. So we own all of the mag seven x meta. It will have its day again just like Intel did. The question is how long.
Will one have to wait and what is the opportunity cost.
And the global opportunity cost or global opportunity We were just talking about how Asia trade has just seen colossal game still for the AI infrastructure betsna see. Is that still going to be the winning formula the chip makers? The designer is right now, I think.
In the near term, Caroline, but I think what we're going to start pivoting to and we launched a thematic portfolio with a focus on space in robotics, quantum and then nuclear and then of course the metals and minerals that are needed to drive those technologies. So I think for the near term, I mean, we're hearing that the backlogs are enormous again in the infrastructure names, in the chip names, and I think at some point we will begin to see software as a major beneficiary. Not every
software company. We exited Adobe and CRM quite some time ago, and we've been wrong about service now so far. But I think you'll start to see the winners there and then you'll see the market pivot at least back to software. So I think there's still a lot of opportunities in this new industrial revolution we're living through Naze Tangla.
It's always great to have you on CEO and CIO of l Hangler Investments on all things AI and tech trade. Meanwhile, coming up more AI, open Ai Anthropic are each forming joint ventures aimed at boosting AI adoption. Will have the details. Next, this is Blue meg Tech, Open Ai and Anthropic are each forming partnerships aimed at boosting the use of AI
tools by businesses. Are sourcing saying that open ai has raised more than four billion dollars for a new joint venture that includes backing from TPG, Brickfield Asset Management and Being Capital. Meanwhile, rival Anthropic is partnering with Blackstone Helman Friedman Goldman Sachs. According to a statement, let's get the latest boom Meg Seth Figureman, this is all about getting private equity companies, portfolio companies to use the technology.
Right Yeah, and there list of portfolio companies that work with them. And I think it's a really comment in AI. For most of the air boom, a lot of the focus has been on the competitive landscape of who can build better and more sophisticated models. Now we're seeing a really important vector is who can do better at gegging businesses to understand and adopt that technology in their day to day work.
There's just different tactics in which it's being deployed.
So open ai is raising money themselves alongside outside investment for a company that's going to be worth all told ten billion, not including that funding, and then how does it roll out because they've also had this interesting deal where they helped invest in Thrive Holdings, which is Thrive Capital's ability to sort of deploy AI into other parts of the ecosystem.
Yeah, I mean at some level this is being pitched as a separate venture, but Opening I will be the majority owner and in control of it according to the sourcing that we have here, which suggests that they will
have a key role in dictating how this proceeds. And I think again the idea is rather than open ai on its own balance sheet, within its own ranks figuring out how to get their technology into the hands of more business leaders, they will now work with this consortium of partners and investors across thousands of potential portfolio companies to.
Do that work.
I mean, while the timing just sensational that Anthelopic is announcing the same thing on the same day.
Again, it speaks to the moment that we're in right now. These two companies are following somewhat similar playbooks to bolster revenue and business traction heading into the potential IPOs.
So figureman across an astounding amount of stories.
As ever, we thank you very much. Indeed, sticking with Open Ai.
Look, the startup's president, Greg Brockman is set to take the stand today in a company's legal battle against Elon Musk.
Brotman is expected to face probe questions about.
A personal journal he kept, which Musk's legal team says is evidence he and open Ai CEO Sam Altman intended to abandon the company's nonprofit mission now.
For all this AI.
Guess what you need compute and chipmaker and data center operators. Cerebrius is looking to capitalize on that very demand. The nvideo rival, as it likes to see itself, is seeking to raise as much as three and a half billion dollars from a pub offering later this month. Price range and its security is filing really confirms Bluemog's earlier reporting. Let's get to one of the reporters who's always across
IPO's Bailey Lipshaltz. No, this is a company that wants to offer more inferencing capacity.
Is it really a competitor end.
Video in their mind?
Yes, And even when I talk to investors, there's a world that they will kind of be another option, if you will. It goes back to kind of the debate around Starlink and saying, Okay, well, yes they dominate that
potential market, but there have to be other players. So while there is at least for now a monopoly of source for in video, when you look at the partnerships that Serabras has inked, obviously G forty two was a big risk, but now leaning into opening Eye and kind of diversifying the customer flow, it does seem like that's
a bit of a ball case. And keep in mind, even with this potential IPO, we're talking about a company potentially valued at thirty three billion dollars, not four trillion dollars.
Good context.
Look, this could all come to bear as soon as May thirteenth, right, we're thinking that's when the pricing's happening, the trading begins.
Is this going to be a retail focused name.
Who's going to be understanding the Cerebraus story because G forty two, as you know, as you were just illuminating to us, Look, this is a geopolitical story as well.
It is geopolitical story, but you have to keep in mind that this is a company that fits into the themes that are dominating capital markets right now, AI and AI infrastructure. So we've seen investors lean into the X energies of the world that want to promise a nuclear future. We're talking about this name with a number of hedge funds and long only investors, and they're saying, you kind of have to own this company if you play the IPO calendar, So it will broaden across reach across kind
of the broader investor group, if you will. And one thing to keep in mind with this launch, we're expecting potentially eight billion dollars of IPOs proceeds being raised in the next two weeks. This will be a big part of that, and how this performs will help set the stage for SpaceX likely next month and.
Then maybe open AI on propic. Look, this is a great time considering where the market's trading out right.
I mean, that's been the interesting thing right is you look at the socks. We were up more than thirty five percent in the last month. So when you look at expectations for this company in particular, a month ago, you would have said, okay, twenty five thirty, sure you can sell me on that. Now it's like thirty five to forty billion dollars, just because your comps are up so sharply. Just starts to make sense when you're looking at how you have to value a company when it's
going public, is what do your comparables look like? Take a little bit of a discount, and that math is kind of working in the company's favor again, just given them move higher that we've seen for some of those peers.
It's a different company, but it's almost tangential to the likes of a core Weave, which is all about trying to solve the compute issues.
For core Weave, the.
Headache has always been I've got more customers than you realize. Is this where maybe Cerebrius is going to have to convince the market too well.
I think that was the big pitch and the big reason that diversifying away from G forty two at least is some indigestion for investors. Yes, when they try to go public the first time over a year ago, it was concentration risk, it was Siffius uncertainty, it was obviously kind of every number of potential bear cases. Whereas now the tide really has shifted, so you do have the kind of your focus of one customer similar to a core we were there was such a bare case of okay, well,
how relying are you on one company? Now we're seeing that spread out just a little bit. The interesting thing will be how do they structure this lockup and what does the performance really look like six months from now as opposed to day one trading, which we've seen kind of can be all over the map.
Well said, it's going to be a busy old week, old month for you. I think Badi Dipshils, we so appreciate it. On all things IPO is now coming up. We've got planning more to come on the world of AI and AI inference. I'm going to be hearing from a company US leading that charge in the private space. CEO of Deep Infra is going to be joining us Nicolair. For ourself, this is a bloomberg tech.
In the race to build the.
Next great AI models. The industry is tackling various bottlenecks, one of course being access to compute. Deep Infra is trying to alleviate access to AI inference with a purpose built cloud platform.
It's just a cure.
One hundred and some million dollars in a series B funding back by the likes of Video Samsung joining us now from San Francisco is deep in for CEO Nicola or asof Nicola, It is great to have you on the show. Why would in video want to put money into you? How are you helping the GPU story?
Yeah, thanks thanks for having me. Well, we're helping companies get access to these great open source models, and we're building this purpose built inference cloud. So it's it's really you need to you need to build a specialized infrastructure to do inference efficiently, and it really helps everyone access these great open source AI models really well. And I mean that's why Vida was excited to participate in around.
We were just hearing that Cerebraus, which also wants to speed up AI inference offerings, is going to be tapping the public markets. It sees itself as an in video a competitor. How Nicola are you more of an adjacent to the Nvidia story. How are you looking to help deploy GPS? Why is your compute different?
You know, we we've tried a number of different inference accelerators, but we believe like Nvidia's hardware is still the most efficient, the best to do inference at and we're just doubling down on that kind of hardware platform, and we like working closely with the teams that the video and just making inference more efficient. Lowering the price per token is what we really like to focus on, and so that's
kind of our path. We you know, there would be a lot of demand for inference down the line, like we think that eighty percent of the compute is going to go towards inference, But at the moment, you know, we've invested heavily into the Nvidia hardware stack.
What's interesting is you're already processing what five trillion tokens per week? How do you get the efficiencies? How do you drive down the cost of token?
It's a lot of hard work, and we look at it through the whole stack of like where we build this kind of inference clusters, which data centers we go in, how we structure them, and then a lot on the software on top of it. We believe like one of the key things is to have very good caching of tokens. As these agents kind of interact with theim models. They basically make many requests in a loop with roughly the same context. So like I think kV cash is a
really key to efficiency of inference. And you know, we've been doing this for about four years. We saw the demand for inference coming and we really focused on how do we build an purpose build inference cloud.
And I think therefore you are scaling out you have was it you're operating out of eight data centers. I think it is already with this new money one hundred million more than where do you deploy that?
We will use the capital from this fundraise to scale our platform.
We will.
You know, deploy more of the latest Nvidia chips and then scale our inference platform across the US, but also we're looking to expand in Europe and Asia later this year.
Samsung also part of the strategic investors. It's not just GPUs from in video one needs. You need an awful lot of the high bandwidth memory. We know about memory costs soaring because of the AI demand. Is that why some sung comes forward. How are you thinking about the supply chain headaches or not that you might face.
Yeah, you know, in the last couple since the beginning of the year, it's been like struggle to find some of the chips that we need for our inference clusters. Memory and discs have been an issue, and so it's important for us to have you know, in our corner good investors that they are helping us, including super Micro and Samsung, con and Nvidia, to make sure we have
the right supply and we don't struggle as much. But the chip shortages are pretty real and I feel like, you know, inference needs like a million times more compute than like traditional computing, and so we would see more and more demand for chips including CPUs, GPU's memory.
Nicola, it's been great speaking to you.
Thank you very much in the Deep Infra Ceo Nicola for as of on the latest funding round coming out, we've got more on funds being deployed in ALI adjacent areas, particularly crypto. We're going to be speaking to Katie Horn and a bit to talk about her new one billion dollar fund and the state of the crypto market. But let's also focus in on these markets more broadly. Right now, Crypto had been outperforming, Tech had been out performing. Actually
we're starting to see a pullback. There is tension once again, particularly with the UAE. The UAE is saying it's air defense systems are currently responding to a missile threat. They're posting on x about a third missile threat that they've currently been facing. In particular, this is in response to Iran geopolitics wants to gain in front and center as all prices is extend their gains. Brent crude is to
see one hundred and fourteen dollars. That means risk sentiment just turns sour and now's that one hundred now down three tens percent.
We will higher.
At the start of this particular show, the semiconductor index also off by eight tens percent off of its record high. We're going to keep you up to speed what's happening in the markets and in geopolitics. More broadly, this is Bloomberg Tech. Welcome back to Bloomberg Tech. We look at broader markets for a moment now because well we're back in risk off sentiment amid rising geopolitical concerns regarding the
conflicts with Iran. We're currently off by two tenths of percent on the nast like one hundred, flicking into negative territory.
We had been higher.
You're seeing the semiconductor index coming off of its record high. Brent crude up to one hundred and thirteen one hundred and fourteen.
Dollars, let's call it.
This is UAE is issuing missile warnings, rising tensions and risking the US Iran. True, it's just coming our hours after an oil tank grown by the UA State Old Company was also struck by Iranian drones. So keep an eye on what's happening with the bond market as that anxiety builds and we see maybe inflation pressures coming from oil. We see the thirty year eclipse five percent. Look, we haven't seen this sort of level on the thirty year bonds in terms of yields since July. You're seeing ten
year ramp high six basis points. Two year also up seven basis points, let's call it. So we keep an eye on the broader market. We also keep an eye on risk sentiment just across this entire asset classes. And we don't want to focus in on our big number today to say two thousand dollars. Guess what managed to touch it again Bitcoin for the first time since January.
It has seen some love as the tech trade has powered on.
Higher in the previous week and we hit a record high on Friday, and of course the sasset trades over the weekend. I want to talk more about the crypto sector. A blue mid cross hasset reporter is about Lee, fresh back from an event in Vegas. What are the vibes right now in crypto?
Honestly, very optimistic and enthusiastic, Like when I was there. It was in Vegas, the Bitcoin conference from Monday to Wednesday. Everyone was just so happy to be there. There were orange suits, orange cowboy hats. See if TC Mike's Sea lig is there. Paul Atkins of SEC was there that we were wearing orange necktat Why why the.
Orange vibes is just the color the color of not a Bloomberg terminal.
Unfortunately not It could be the orange is like the unofficial color of bitcoin. And every booth had a big B plastered on it, which is the symbol of bitcoin. You could just feel the vibes in the air. Mic Sailor again predicting ten million for bitcoin. Eric Trump dropped by on a Wednesday saying one million for bitcoin, So even if the daily price were fluctuations, weren't any more focus there. The big one million goal is still in the horizon, or ten million if you ask sailor.
But was any of this Bitcoin and men's look, what we keep seeing is that there are other areas of excitement, more infrastructure being built, more fought around where the world of cryptocurrencies go, rather than.
The OG in the space definitely, so they were thinking about bitcoin in the future of it. Of course, there were a lot of talks about AI and how that will affect bitcoin, especially when it comes to mining. And I've talked to a couple of people who really still insisted that bitcoin is different from other crypto assets because
bitcoin is bitcoin. It's the original, it's the largest, it's the oldest, and others are pump and dump, you know, others have smart contract that may vanish in a few minutes, but then for them, Bitcoin is the OG. And I'm sure now they were looking at eighty thousand two because for a while the bitcoin price has been hovering between that and not really hitting eighty thousand, So I'm sure if the bitcoin conference was this week.
They would be happy. So they're enthusiasts around the store of value mentality. All that war can be done with crypto free. More generally, it's still the store of value mentality.
Although I did talk to some people roaming around the first time attendee said that what's next after this one? Because what else could bring this price higher? I mean, it's already so institutionalized. I also talked to Adam Back, who is not Satoci. According to him, he did say again he's not Satoshi, and I asked him, how do you feel, because the institutionalization of bitcoin kind of goes against the ethos of bitcoin, But he was like, no, actually, it's more access for everyone.
And he said when people say that.
Black Crocker Strategy are the biggest holders of bitcoin, he said, they're really just the custodians in his eyes, but it's still the people who owns it. So really lots of interesting characters. It was an electric kind of conference. It was really good vibes all around. If you're a skeptic, I think you'd doubt it. At least if you're.
There, you're not wearing orange. I know is a BALLEI.
It's great to have her on the show on All Things Crypto. Look, I'm very pleased to say we can bring in someone who knows a thing or two about the world of crypto.
Katie Hornss.
He's made her name investing in digital assets and crypto startups. Her firm Horn Ventures has just closed a one billion dollar fund.
You've no mutable exits.
I think a BBNK you're required by mastercart another startup that you backed early on Bridge has been brought by Stripe Katie, Is this what it's about? Is it about finding the startups that are likely to just drive this ecosystem forward.
Good morning, Caroline, Thanks for having me.
Yeah, the world's a very different place than it was four years ago when we raised our first pair of funds, and we're really excited now to have a billion dollars in fresh capital across a pair of funds to back founders in what we say are building the new economy. And the new economy is we think there's an intersection really between AI and between digital assets. We're calling it
an agentic future. That's one structural shift we've seen. Another structural shift we've seen is the creation of new assets, things like stable coin.
That has been an area that clearly you saw coming you lean into and a stable coin ability.
I think we just had a few tech issues with Katie. We'll get back to you in a minute. There we are.
I think the stable coin area has been something that clearly you've seen work with M and A and portfolio companies being bought by really institutional adopters who are now trying to embrace I think of the likes of masscard, for example. But what's happening in terms of the AI adjacency for those who've been hidden away from How crypto is now thinking of itself as a future of AI agents.
How does that work?
Well, if you think about a world where financial products and services are really being built for an end user that's not necessarily a human but might also soon be an agent or a computer, that's a really different world. I mean, if you think about agents, what are one thing we humans do?
We stop.
We have a finite period of time that we work during the day, So we might be okay with a bank that's closed on a weekend or that has a wire cutoff or deadline or bankers hours. But of course AI agents are powered twenty four to seven. They are globally. They work globally from day one, and they're always on and so I think that there's a lot of opportunity
there in what we're calling the finance sector. But you also mentioned Caroline stable coins, and I think that's another area where we've seen the digital asset space grow, and.
We're seeing it grow ever more.
Of course, now we're at a point where stable coins and you mentioned BV and K, which just exited to MasterCard for one point eight billion dollars.
By the way, that was Mastercard's third.
Largest ever acquisition, and I think it's reflective of that you now have double digit trillion dollars in stable coins, and this is an innovation that didn't even exist a decade ago. And if you can tokenize a dollar, it turns out you can tokenize other things. So we see institutional players like black Rock and fintech giants like Robinhood and coinbase start to tokenize stocks, and it turns out you can tokenize all kinds of other products and services.
For that to really be adopted is of course a future where the regulatory environment has been far more warm, shall we say, towards crypto and these innovations and that's where you sit at this intersection, Katie. That's I mean bron Elmstrong himself, someone that you've helped oversee the company of of coinbase before a sixteen Z. What was so interesting about you is also you sat on the DOJ side of things. You understand government, You can talk to both sides of the community.
What is the regulatory environment like right now?
Yeah, Look, I've been following the flow of assets my entire career. I started as I started my career actually at the Supreme Court as a law clerk to Justice Kennedy, and then spent over a decade at the Justice Department. And what I can tell you is this is one of the most transformational periods in technology and finance that I've really ever witnessed. You mentioned regulatory Caroline, and I think that's a part of it, but also the infrastructure is a part of it. And let's also be honest,
the institutional story is a part of it. As far as regulatory environment, I think people often also overlook what the courts have been involved in the regulatory and shaping the regulatory environment. And this has been happening kind of in the background over the last several years. Now we have something coming up, which is the Crypto Markets Structure Bill, and so everyone's eyes are on that.
And of course we had the Genius Act pass last year.
There are still lawmakers anny convincing Okatie. I think of Elizabeth Warren, who's worried about perhaps one of your new and really well many would say, the exciting startup that has been co founded by Palmer Lucky. Now you're in a company that is Airbor, which is all about I think I'm pronouncing it correctly right.
Arabar is.
Airbor is this new sort of bank.
It's just had occ sign off that it's able to go out there, and after it gone an application and granted a preliminary application at least for approval to become a bank. But Elizabeth Warren is like, that's happened all too fast, and it seems to be that they're close to the administration. How do you get comfortable that these companies are being vetted in the way that you want to see them being vetted?
Sure, well, we always look at the founding team. Whenever we're looking for an opportunity to make an investment, we look at the founding team. And you've alluded to part of the founding team here. So we think this founding
team of Airbor is incredibly strong. And actually the Palmer Lucky's co founder is a founder that we had backed in our first fund, so we have a long history going back with him and have seen him over the years, and we are actually the second largest investor, I believe at this point in Arabor, And I think the exciting thing about Arabor so it's also the product market fit and they just crossed a billion dollars in deposits, and it's also the size of the opportunity and that's where
I think Airbor and companies like it really shine.
I mean, it's really built for the future.
And if you think about it, it opened on a Sunday, Caroline, and I think, who's ever heard of a bank opening on a Sunday? Now, I think that for the digitally native generations, and certainly for the AI native generations, whire cutoffs are going to be a thing of the past. It will be kind of like when you see a payphone booth on the corner and you're like, what is that for in a world where everyone's now on their cell phones.
Very briefly, Katie, you've already had success with exits on the M and a side of things you personally have vetted in some investment. Some of the most exciting companies were anticipating IPOs from SpaceX. I know they were in Andreil, another parmoniaking business. You're an open AI. Is the market feeling solid right now?
You know?
I think right now what we're seeing is we're seeing a period of transformation and tremendous opportunity. And I think this is something I've been alongside the unfolding of transformational technology my entire career.
And there will be ups and there will be downs.
And one thing I've noticed is that there are periods of irrationality on the way up, and there are periods of irrationality on.
The way down.
And our job is long term venture investors who are investing, by the way, Caroline over a ten year decade. Although your colleague Natasha reported that we had already returned capital four years.
In to some of our LPs around the world from our first pair of funds.
We're looking at what the world looks like in ten years, not what it looks like right now. And we think at bottom, it's a period of tremendous opportunity, generational opportunity.
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And hear earnings they're out after the market cloth is later today. So far today shares in the AI firm is up one and a half percent, outperforming the rest of the market. But they haven't outperformed the rest of the market since they peaked back at the end of October, losing a significant amount of market capitalization as they got caught up in perhaps the software.
Anxiety and sell off. Is that right that it is?
Let's talk about what to expect the Bloombergs Lazette Chapman fundamentals first, know, there's far works when it comes to Doctor carp is that but what are we expecting in terms of growth of the business?
Right well, Endless are expecting another massive quarter of a lot of growth, seventy four percent revenue spike, a doubling of profits from the same period last year they've been. This is pretty consistent with past quarterly growth that they've been that they continually set the bar high and ask Palenteers to deliver. There's you know, a history of Palenteer meeting or beating those expectations. So well, uh, that's that's
what a lot of people are looking for. That's what some of the betting markets are looking at as well this morning.
Ah.
I like that you're fielding in some of the vetting or at least different ways of predicting which way the market's going to go. And is that the market if you're looking at analysts, think that the price target is much higher than where we currently trade.
So is there sort of a vibe shift that we can get from Doctor Corp.
As well as clearly the growth that they continue to deliver from the bottom line on top.
Right, He will definitely be speaking with analysts today. Typically issues some type of shareholder letter as well, where he outlines everything that you just kind of alluded to with the Vibe shift, trying to distance Palenteer from the other AI software stocks and also to position it.
As a type of company that is.
Going to support US policy no matter how controversial or or difficult. And there's also a lot of focus right now on what they've done to UH support efforts in UH you know, Iran, also in Israel and with you know, US Department of War as well as many of our allies, So there's going to be a big focus on He usually speaks to that topic as well, and that's what many will be looking for for him to continue with that vibe.
Blue meg Intelligence analyst man I'm seeing is talking about the government segment and how it continues to benefit from the company's exposure to these increased US defense spending on products such as maven amid the war in Iran, But the commercial side that really has been an area of growth. Are we expecting what's expecting to see that pick up, and particularly if it's just US bound or whether we see more international adoption.
That's a great question, and I think that's something that a lot of people are going to be looking at if they've been able to drive it internationally. US commercial growth has been on a blockbuster tear for you know, at least the last year plus since they introduced AI AIP, and so they're looking at growth rates for you know, about you know, in the ninety percent or so for commercial growth, and for the government growth they're looking around
fifty nine percent. Again, government is about half of the revenue, it's about half and half, and slowly commercial is starting to you know, build up. They haven't been in this commercial is they haven't been in commercial as long or as strong as government. That's an area that a lot will be looking at, specifically here in the US, whether they can gain traction abroad as well.
And then there's the man, the myth that some would say the legend himself, Dot Carp, the way he speaks to his own loyalists when it comes to shareholders, he's often quite rude to the analyst community. And then we'll street more broadly, but he's had some thoughtful insight as to the future of the workforce and where humanities takes us in terms of an area of study, of expecting any sort of philosophical perspective coming today, I.
Think that that would be a pretty good guess that would land well.
He and CTO Sham Sankar have been on this quest, as you say, to kind of you know, mobilize the you know, not just the software and the bits, but or not not just the bites but also the bits, and so you know, they are both looking for, you know, to kind of establish that and kind of continue that narrative that now only Alex Carr wrote about in Technological Republic, but you know, Seam wrote about in his new book about mobilizing the techno industrial workforce and reshoring a lot
of the industrial and manufacturing capacities that are you know, traditionally been abroad that they're looking to bring back on shore here in the United States. They had a commercial software wind recently with Cleveland Cliffs to use their AI software to assist with the steelmaking capacity.
So it's it's a pretty good bet.
Like you said, Carolyn, you've been watching these for these earnings for a long time as well, that he will continue with that and talk really more about the big changes to American society.
Writ large that Palenteer and its software is looking to enforce.
Well We're lucky to have you watching them for us tonight. Blim Boz, Lazette, Chapman, thank you very much. Indeed, coming up, we're largely the Milk and Institute Global Conference. We're gonna be speaking with Scott Turner. He's the US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. This is Blue Meg Tech head out to the Milkan Institute. Balance of Power. Co host Joe Matthew standing by with a.
Special guest, Joe.
That Caroline.
Thank you.
The Secretary of Housing and Urban Developments is with me right now, live in Los Angeles at the Milkan Global Conference. Secretary Turner, it's great to see you. Welcome to lumber.
Thank you.
Questions about the housing market on this day that the thirty year treasury tops five percent, This is a big deal for our audience. It's a big deal for a homeowner or anyone looking to buy a home. How much will interest rates be a challenge to what you're trying to do in increasing access to affordable housing?
Well, thank you so much. You know, I think you see you know the President Trump is layers of focus on house and affordability. He's focused on keeping our country safe, you know from a regime having a nuclear weapon, but also layers of focus here domestically to make sure that
the Americans can achieve their American dream. And so as we see the fluctuation and interest rates, we're also you know, looking at the regulatory environment to bring down burn some regulations to make it easier for builders to build and for buyers to buy. So I'm grateful for the President's leadership, and at HUD we're following that and encouraging localities to do the same.
You were pointing specifically to your recision of the i e C and Energy Efficiency requirement that the Biden administration put in place that you say added over thirty thousand dollars to building a home.
Yes, sir, so this is the final determination for twenty twenty four during the Biden administration. Really it's the International Energy Conservation Code and it added up to thirty thousand dollars per project when builders are already building to these energy code and so we were scinded that to make it easier for builders to build, which will make it
better for buyers to buy. On top of that, you know, one hundred thousand dollars and regulation and regulatory fees is added to the final price of a single family home that's not sustainable in our country. So we've been very focused on bringing down the regulatory environment, making it easier for builders to build, better for buyers to buy, and raising a supply in our country.
We're having a big conversation in America right now about affordability. We talk about it on the air all day, whether it's four dollars a gallon gas, although where we are you've probably seen, mister Secretary, it's above six dollars in California, which is pretty wild. But the cost of everything from food it's a gas is an issue for Americans, making your mission that much more urgent but also more difficult.
Now.
Well, you know, like I said before, the President and his layers were focused on domestic policy from the time he was campaigning until the time he came into office. He said, we're going to make it more affordable in American I know personally being in the cabinet and knowing the President working with him that to be able to help Americans to afford to buy a home, to buy grocers, to buy medications, it's top of mind for the President.
And so you see the actions that have been taken the recision of these regulatory environments that taken down burdens and regulations to help American people is a great priority for the President and myself. And so while it may seem to be difficult, we've made great strides, but there's still a lot of work to do or.
At a time, mister secretary, but how many houses can you build if you stay with President Trump for the remainder of this term, how many affordable units can you add in this country?
Well, we're going to add many, many, in particular opportunity designs. There's already been four hundred thousand, so we want to do potated and do even more.
It's great to see you, Good luck and thanks for being with us. Thank you, Secretary Scott Turner with us live from Los Angeles, Caroline.
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