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  1. 0:00I think most of what's driving crypto
  2. 0:01right now is a combination of new
  3. 0:04players coming in. This is what a bull
  4. 0:06market is about. And you're right, FOMO
  5. 0:08is going to start to kick in very, very
  6. 0:09soon. I said before when Bitcoin got
  7. 0:11above 82,000, that was the confirmation
  8. 0:13[music] of the bull trend. I think we're
  9. 0:15in that. The fundamental side's getting
  10. 0:17stronger and stronger by the day. I I
  11. 0:20think we're at a point where this stuff
  12. 0:22is about to [music] kind of take off,
  13. 0:23particularly with what happened today
  14. 0:25with the What's going on, guys? Today,
  15. 0:27we got a great conversation with Jordy
  16. 0:28Visser. In this one, we're going to talk
  17. 0:30about what's going on in the macro
  18. 0:31world. Why are people so fearful when
  19. 0:32the data actually says you should be
  20. 0:34bullish? What's going on in AI? Why is
  21. 0:36the rise of personal AI assistance very
  22. 0:38bullish for token consumption or the big
  23. 0:40model labs actually coming under
  24. 0:42pressure or not? Jord and I disagree and
  25. 0:44then we agree on a big topic that I
  26. 0:45think you're going to enjoy. And then we
  27. 0:46talk about crypto, public equities, and
  28. 0:48what he sees going on in people's
  29. 0:50portfolios, how the end of the year
  30. 0:51should go, where we're going next year,
  31. 0:53and maybe he even gives a little bit of
  32. 0:55alpha, something he calls the micron
  33. 0:57moment, which I think that all of you
  34. 0:58will be very interested in. Here's my
  35. 1:00latest conversation with Jordi Visser.
  36. 1:02All right, Jordy, it seems like every
  37. 1:04single person I talk to from the
  38. 1:05traditional world, they are freaking out
  39. 1:07about macro factors. They're saying
  40. 1:08interest rates are going up, oil's at
  41. 1:10100, the 10-year keeps going higher.
  42. 1:12They are so worried that the big crash,
  43. 1:15the Michael Bur moment is coming. I
  44. 1:17don't get the sense that you agree.
  45. 1:20I actually think it's stupid.
  46. 1:22Podcast over. I I mean, I've posted an X
  47. 1:28a bunch about this this week. I did a
  48. 1:30subscriber video and I had like 25
  49. 1:32slides of of why this is just add it to
  50. 1:37the list of doomer stuff that comes out.
  51. 1:41uh tariffs and the war and oil's going
  52. 1:45to infinity and all of these things. So
  53. 1:47this is the way the economy works.
  54. 1:52We have a very diverse economy in the
  55. 1:54US. We have a diverse stock market.
  56. 1:56Theoretically, we have 500 names in the
  57. 1:58S&P 500.
  58. 2:00Rates mattered a lot before the great
  59. 2:02financial crisis. They mattered a lot
  60. 2:04into the great financial crisis because
  61. 2:06the economy was built on autos, housing.
  62. 2:10Um that's why we created things like the
  63. 2:12leading economic indicators. We have
  64. 2:14what's called financial conditions
  65. 2:16index. Everything changed after the
  66. 2:18great financial crisis. So the first
  67. 2:21thing about rates are everyone's like
  68. 2:23we're at 20-year highs for rates. Well,
  69. 2:26let's just go back to what that means.
  70. 2:27That means by definition rates just
  71. 2:29before the great financial crisis. I'm
  72. 2:31not sure anyone got the memo, but to
  73. 2:34save us from the great financial crisis,
  74. 2:36they had to move rates to zero and then
  75. 2:38we stayed at zero for a long time to get
  76. 2:42us out of the problem. So really what's
  77. 2:45happened to rates is they've normalized.
  78. 2:46Nominal GDP is six and change percent.
  79. 2:49Historically 10ear rates should be 200
  80. 2:51basis points above. Now let's say it's
  81. 2:53about it. That changed in 1997. So let's
  82. 2:56say it just goes to even. We're still
  83. 2:59cheap relative to nominal GDP. Now, that
  84. 3:02matters because GDP is growing at six
  85. 3:04and a half percent. Theoretically, if
  86. 3:06you just take what that is, that means
  87. 3:08you'd have to have rates above it to
  88. 3:10where it would be difficult to make
  89. 3:11money if that's kind of how much money
  90. 3:12you can make investing wise or
  91. 3:14transaction-wise, business-wise.
  92. 3:17>> But that's not the case. So, with inside
  93. 3:19the S&P 500 are a lot of zombie
  94. 3:22companies. I mean, I hate to say it, but
  95. 3:26home builders don't make much money
  96. 3:27these days. Auto companies, Ford, GM,
  97. 3:30>> is that stuff just interest rate driven,
  98. 3:33or do you think that is like a
  99. 3:34structural change in the market and home
  100. 3:37builders, as an example, are going to
  101. 3:39have a tough time for the next 20 years?
  102. 3:41>> I think home builders are going to have
  103. 3:43a tough time for ever. Um, I think the
  104. 3:46economy is changing. I think
  105. 3:47demographics are changing. I think the
  106. 3:49way people view um mobilization having
  107. 3:53the flexibility of moving from state to
  108. 3:55state, country to country, that's been a
  109. 3:57change with the younger generation for
  110. 4:00some time. The old I go to college, I
  111. 4:02get a job, I buy a house after I, you
  112. 4:05know, I have kids and then I stay there
  113. 4:06for 30, 40 years. That doesn't exist
  114. 4:08anymore. And so, we don't have enough
  115. 4:11housing in the country. So, do I think
  116. 4:12there'll be more apartments and things
  117. 4:14like that? Yeah. Do I think Airbnb will
  118. 4:16be? Yeah, I think all of those things
  119. 4:17will happen. But to compare the economy,
  120. 4:19and this is the best way to do it, and
  121. 4:21this is what I'm including in this
  122. 4:22week's video. If you take the revenue
  123. 4:24for Micron and Nvidia in 2015, so 11
  124. 4:28years ago,
  125. 4:29>> and you compare that to Ford, GM, and
  126. 4:31the Homebuilders,
  127. 4:33you're talking about Ford, GM, and the
  128. 4:35Homebuilders being like almost 20 times
  129. 4:37the size of the annual revenue for
  130. 4:40Micron, Nvidia. And now you fast
  131. 4:41forward, Micron and Nvidia alone have
  132. 4:44more than those those the homebuilders
  133. 4:47plus Ford and and GM. But even worse
  134. 4:50than that,
  135. 4:52the expectations of revenue growth for
  136. 4:54the next year for Nvidia are almost the
  137. 4:57entire size of the revenue that will be
  138. 4:59generated. We just have a completely
  139. 5:01different economy. And so when people
  140. 5:03roll this stuff out, once it starts
  141. 5:05with, oh, every time this has happened
  142. 5:08over the past 50 years, X happens. This
  143. 5:10is not the same economy. And I'll just
  144. 5:12as as both being sports fans, they
  145. 5:15changed the rules in the NFL. You know,
  146. 5:17you used to be able to use stick them on
  147. 5:19your hands to, you know, grab intercept
  148. 5:21the ball. You could hold on to someone,
  149. 5:23you wouldn't let go. A lot of different
  150. 5:24rules. You can't touch anyone in the NFL
  151. 5:26anymore. You can't touch the
  152. 5:27quarterback. Is it fair to compare stats
  153. 5:29of the 1970s and 80s to today? Of course
  154. 5:33not. But somehow or another, macro
  155. 5:35people that are in their 50s that never
  156. 5:37touch AI, and that's my big beef is that
  157. 5:40if you actually used AI and you saw
  158. 5:42where things were going, you actually
  159. 5:44saw the productivity gains, you'd
  160. 5:45recognize that the economy's changed. So
  161. 5:47that's why whether it's oil, whether
  162. 5:48it's rates, it's not the same economy as
  163. 5:51before 2007. And that's because of the
  164. 5:53iPhone.
  165. 5:54>> Do are you aware of any measurement that
  166. 5:55basically looks at uh sector-based
  167. 5:58dollar flows? So like, you know, there's
  168. 6:00capital flows. people pay attention to
  169. 6:01macro in terms of uh liquidity cycles
  170. 6:03and things like that. But it's a very
  171. 6:04interesting way to think about okay how
  172. 6:06much aggregate dollars are going towards
  173. 6:09home builders and the revenue and profit
  174. 6:11that's growing there versus maybe some
  175. 6:12of these other sectors and and the
  176. 6:14reason I immediately am intrigued by
  177. 6:16that is it's not just that oh Micron and
  178. 6:19Nvidia were low and now they're high.
  179. 6:21It's that they're actually accelerating.
  180. 6:23And so if you look at this not as a
  181. 6:25static thing but a dynamic trend they
  182. 6:28should pull away very aggressively here
  183. 6:30and then the question becomes okay well
  184. 6:33what are the sectors that are getting
  185. 6:35hammered you mentioned housing and car
  186. 6:37manufacturing but I don't know I could
  187. 6:39probably think of very quickly 10 or 12
  188. 6:41you know different types of businesses
  189. 6:42that are all going to be in somewhat of
  190. 6:44a static you know um kind of environment
  191. 6:47going forward
  192. 6:48>> I mean there's a huge opportunity to
  193. 6:50just take capital out of those sectors
  194. 6:52>> Yep. and rotate them over and almost
  195. 6:55indiscriminate of names. It is just
  196. 6:57literally where is the momentum and
  197. 6:59growth coming from
  198. 7:02like a Buffett style approach. I don't
  199. 7:04think that buying things for less than
  200. 7:06they're worth is ever going to go out of
  201. 7:07style, but just like buying quote
  202. 7:10unquote good, strong, cash flowing
  203. 7:11businesses feels like that type of value
  204. 7:14investor may have a tough time going
  205. 7:16forward.
  206. 7:16>> So, let's go back to 2015. So, the other
  207. 7:20thing that I did is, and let's take it
  208. 7:22back to the iPhone. So, when the iPhone,
  209. 7:24believe it or not, when the iPhone came
  210. 7:26out, remember that was at the end of a
  211. 7:297-year bare market in technology. So, we
  212. 7:32had the dot bubble and it took 7 years
  213. 7:35all the way into the great financial
  214. 7:36crisis to basically get back to where we
  215. 7:38were at that time. Technology
  216. 7:42was about 13% of the S&P 500. And this
  217. 7:45is where your question on revenue so
  218. 7:47people understand you can have a lot of
  219. 7:49revenue in a sector but if it's not
  220. 7:51growing the S&P 500 is not going to
  221. 7:53value it but S&P 500 does care about the
  222. 7:55revenues but it cares about the growth
  223. 7:58and right now the S&P 500 if you take
  224. 8:01technology sector which is going to
  225. 8:03include software and semis you add in
  226. 8:07basically companies like Netflix and uh
  227. 8:11Google and Meta and Amazon and Tesla
  228. 8:14because they're technology companies,
  229. 8:16but they're in other sectors. You're up
  230. 8:18to 56% of the S&P 500 now. 56. Wow.
  231. 8:22>> So, we've already hurt all of these
  232. 8:25others. This is what gets into the other
  233. 8:27thing people are talking about. So,
  234. 8:29>> there's this new highs, new lows, and
  235. 8:31the breath. The breath is horrible.
  236. 8:33Okay, let's go through what this means.
  237. 8:35If seven companies are winning and the
  238. 8:38tech side is now 56%. Whenever tech is
  239. 8:41dominating, these companies are the
  240. 8:43breath is going to be bad by definition.
  241. 8:45But if you move rates higher, tech is
  242. 8:48insensitive to rates. And this is the
  243. 8:50other mistake people are making. Now,
  244. 8:52the doomers will tell you that, "Oh my
  245. 8:54god, we need capital and this is
  246. 8:56borrowing money." And I've said
  247. 8:57repeatedly on everything I speak at,
  248. 8:59there is absolutely no sensitivity for
  249. 9:01rates in the AI trade. None. You can
  250. 9:04move it up a lot. If compute prices
  251. 9:07don't come down, Nvidia, it just doesn't
  252. 9:10matter. I mean, I know it's hard for
  253. 9:12people to believe that, but the reality
  254. 9:14is the margins for Micron, they just
  255. 9:16released earnings this week, 87%.
  256. 9:19There is so much margin in what
  257. 9:21Anthropic does and what OpenAI does that
  258. 9:23they're selling compute at prices
  259. 9:25because people need it. It's
  260. 9:27intelligence. It's incredible. They need
  261. 9:30it.
  262. 9:30>> I may disagree with some of this.
  263. 9:31>> Okay. Well, let's let's finish the the
  264. 9:33statement first. So when you look at
  265. 9:35newo new highs and new lows and everyone
  266. 9:36goes look at all the new lows. You know
  267. 9:38what the new lows are in? Consumer
  268. 9:39staples.
  269. 9:40>> True.
  270. 9:41>> Utilities, real estate, you know what
  271. 9:43those names are? They're all interest
  272. 9:45rate sensitive. They all they have no
  273. 9:47benefit from the AI situation cuz AI is
  274. 9:50driving rates higher. It's hurting these
  275. 9:52groups. And that's why they're trading
  276. 9:53at 52- week lows because who wants to
  277. 9:55own a consumer staples and a utility
  278. 9:58when they're basically just synthetic
  279. 10:00bond positions when bond rates are going
  280. 10:02higher?
  281. 10:03I agree that the rate sensitive
  282. 10:06businesses 100% are under pressure,
  283. 10:09going to be under pressure until things
  284. 10:10change. Anyone who disagrees with that,
  285. 10:12I think that that's actually a uh
  286. 10:14agreement point between the like doomers
  287. 10:16and the AI folks is there's a certain
  288. 10:18part of the economy if rates go up,
  289. 10:20they're going to get hurt on tech, the
  290. 10:23individual businesses, I agree. I do
  291. 10:25think though there's a connection
  292. 10:26between rates going up and the top in
  293. 10:30November of 2021 as an example. So the
  294. 10:33Fed comes out and says, "Hey, we are
  295. 10:34going to start raising rates." They
  296. 10:35don't do it till March of 22, but that
  297. 10:38pretty much marked the top. If you go
  298. 10:39back to 200 uh 2000 kind of bubble,
  299. 10:42right? Same thing. Rates, they kind of
  300. 10:44forecast, hey, we're going to raise
  301. 10:45rates, market turns over. So in a weird
  302. 10:48way, it doesn't impact the actual
  303. 10:50businesses, but on an overall like
  304. 10:52almost macro basis, when they say
  305. 10:54they're going to raise rates, usually
  306. 10:55that has marked some sort of top, which
  307. 10:57I think is what the doomers are kind of
  308. 10:58pulling back to. I think your point it
  309. 11:01sounds like is well rates are going up
  310. 11:03right now and the market is going up too
  311. 11:05which kind of like violates that that
  312. 11:06viewpoint. So put that aside for one
  313. 11:08second. I am um I went from anthropic
  314. 11:14open AI etc being the best businesses in
  315. 11:17the world to now I think I'm in the camp
  316. 11:19of there's an increasing chance that
  317. 11:21they are going to be way underperform
  318. 11:23what people think and there are three
  319. 11:25data points I'd love your reaction to.
  320. 11:27First is token consumption per customer
  321. 11:29seems to have exploded and now is
  322. 11:32starting to turn over in a number of
  323. 11:34things. We see this in the ramp AI index
  324. 11:36spending is down. We also see this in a
  325. 11:38number of these kind of metrics that
  326. 11:40look at you know whether it's open
  327. 11:41router or whatever that that that's
  328. 11:42coming down. We also know uh Grock
  329. 11:45recently released their latest uh model
  330. 11:47and they showed a chart of performance
  331. 11:49and price. Everything is getting better
  332. 11:51performance and price is coming down. So
  333. 11:53it looks like everything's kind of
  334. 11:54diving down into the right. Well, if you
  335. 11:57take those two numbers, number of tokens
  336. 11:59processed times price of token, that is
  337. 12:02ultimately the revenue of the model
  338. 12:03labs. So talking to Dan Ives this week
  339. 12:05and I said, look, if those two numbers
  340. 12:06are both coming down
  341. 12:08anthropic, like the latest charts are
  342. 12:10just kind of showing slight growth, but
  343. 12:12to like plateau revenue. And so as
  344. 12:15businesses realize like maybe we need to
  345. 12:16own more of this ourselves and not just
  346. 12:18outsource everything to these two
  347. 12:19companies. It feels like there's some
  348. 12:21pressure there. Now the overall market
  349. 12:24is growing maybe there's like breath in
  350. 12:26AI where like the revenue flows but
  351. 12:29could there be weakness in the model
  352. 12:30labs and maybe some pressure of them get
  353. 12:32actually getting public yet the AI trade
  354. 12:34more broadly continues and so like
  355. 12:36you're almost getting like a
  356. 12:37reallocation of where value is acrewing.
  357. 12:41>> So let me I'm going to disagree with a
  358. 12:43lot of what you said. Yes,
  359. 12:44>> but not the facts. Okay,
  360. 12:46>> so the the things you highlighted.
  361. 12:47>> Oh, great. Just call me dumb. [laughter]
  362. 12:50>> No, but you're falling into the trap of
  363. 12:53uh that most people get into, which is
  364. 12:55well, let's look at this data. Let's go
  365. 12:56through. So, let's let's
  366. 12:57>> save me, Jordy. No, when So, the first
  367. 13:00part of this year was about token
  368. 13:02maxing. Let's just throw tons of tokens
  369. 13:04inefficiently at everything and see what
  370. 13:05happens.
  371. 13:06>> Okay. Well, we knew that was going to
  372. 13:07end. So, when you look at the ramp index
  373. 13:09and all this stuff,
  374. 13:10>> the token cost will is deflationary.
  375. 13:13It's going to continue to come down.
  376. 13:15There's models now that 3 months ago
  377. 13:17from I mean even even open AI has the
  378. 13:20models from 3 months ago which are
  379. 13:24better today than 3 months ago are
  380. 13:26cheaper than they were back then. So
  381. 13:28everything is moving that way. So let's
  382. 13:30leave that alone.
  383. 13:31>> We've entered the agentic side.
  384. 13:33>> Mhm.
  385. 13:34>> The token numbers are going to explode.
  386. 13:37>> We are going to see So all we had were
  387. 13:40enterprise agents.
  388. 13:41>> Mhm. 8 billion people on the planet
  389. 13:43didn't use anything. Well, now Grock,
  390. 13:47Instinct, Muse are just starting.
  391. 13:50>> But how many of those So this is where I
  392. 13:51think the nuance is. How many of those
  393. 13:53use OpenAI or anthropic models?
  394. 13:54>> Well, no, no, no. Not so let me get to
  395. 13:56the end because there let's go what you
  396. 13:58said at the beginning. I am not some
  397. 14:01bull on open AI and anthropic. But
  398. 14:04>> are you a bear?
  399. 14:05>> No. At the But here's the thing. Do I
  400. 14:07think their growth rate has already
  401. 14:09passed the fastest point? Absolutely. So
  402. 14:11the conversation remember two months ago
  403. 14:13was they're they're on an annualized run
  404. 14:15rate which is still there philanthropic
  405. 14:16of 100 plus billion. Okay.
  406. 14:18>> Nice business. Like by the way I'm not
  407. 14:20uh I'm not saying I'm not jealous of
  408. 14:22having that business.
  409. 14:23>> Let's just get something straight for
  410. 14:24everyone who's like wants to fade these
  411. 14:26guys. The total revenue for this year
  412. 14:29that OpenAI and Anthropic will have at
  413. 14:31the end of this year will be greater
  414. 14:33than the entire software revenue. So
  415. 14:37let's let's just get something straight
  416. 14:39like these are the most profit the these
  417. 14:41are the fastest growing companies in the
  418. 14:43history. Anthropic was a $50 billion
  419. 14:45company. It's now a multi-t trillion in
  420. 14:47a year and a half. Like you can't fade
  421. 14:49what's gone on. Do I think they're going
  422. 14:51to get to a trillion dollars in revenue?
  423. 14:52Absolutely not. But do I think people
  424. 14:55are underestimating what the
  425. 14:58biotech companies want to use? What the
  426. 15:00nanotechnology companies want to use?
  427. 15:02What the everything in the physical
  428. 15:04science will pay for frontier
  429. 15:05intelligence? You're crazy if you think
  430. 15:07they're going to use cheaper models.
  431. 15:08Like in the hedge fund industry where
  432. 15:10I'm from, this has already happened.
  433. 15:12Like Jane Street, Millennium, they're
  434. 15:14all using Anthropic. So, everyone's
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  478. 16:46Anthropic anymore. And I'll give you let
  479. 16:49me give you two examples.
  480. 16:51I think everyone starts with I want to
  481. 16:53use AI. I think AI could be valuable.
  482. 16:55And so what you do is you outsource to
  483. 16:57what is the smartest thing I could use
  484. 16:58that's kind of off the shelf. And you go
  485. 17:00right to these guys.
  486. 17:01>> There is no way in hell that at Sylvia
  487. 17:05with less than 10 people on an
  488. 17:06engineering team. We are able to build
  489. 17:09better models that are more accurate
  490. 17:10than these trillion dollar companies for
  491. 17:12personal finance. and Jane Street can't
  492. 17:15figure out how to build a better model
  493. 17:16for their specific use case in terms of
  494. 17:19custom AI harnesses, data pipelines, all
  495. 17:22the model weights and and the training
  496. 17:24etc. And so what I think and again this
  497. 17:28is where uh we are now entering a world
  498. 17:30of uh I call jordy thinking
  499. 17:32probabilistic thinking
  500. 17:33>> of I can't say this with 100% truth but
  501. 17:36I know there's not zero
  502. 17:39>> I think that open anthropic for many
  503. 17:41businesses are the perfect on-ramp so
  504. 17:43you get this acceleration on a per
  505. 17:45customer basis and then the customer
  506. 17:47start to say well can we get better
  507. 17:49intelligence can we get cheaper
  508. 17:50intelligence they start to try to
  509. 17:51optimize that optimization point almost
  510. 17:54every CEO I talked to the private market
  511. 17:55is saying we are starting to do this
  512. 17:57internally. And so to me, what that
  513. 18:00means is their future growth is about
  514. 18:02how do we go get more of the people who
  515. 18:03do not currently use AI to get onboarded
  516. 18:06because they're almost like leaking
  517. 18:08their existing users. The per token
  518. 18:10usage is going down. So they have to go
  519. 18:12get new customers to replace the like
  520. 18:14leakage or the like retention almost to
  521. 18:16some degree. Does that make sense?
  522. 18:18>> Yeah. But this gets back into I the part
  523. 18:20I disagree with is for everything that
  524. 18:22you've said if I told you the most
  525. 18:24important point is that we're in the 1%
  526. 18:28>> right now of usage
  527. 18:29>> and that Jevans paradox is a real thing
  528. 18:31which I completely agree with. There's
  529. 18:34no way that open AI and anthropic don't
  530. 18:37continue to grow. So there's a
  531. 18:39difference between growing as fast as
  532. 18:41they did for the early inception and
  533. 18:43continuing to grow. As someone who
  534. 18:45>> I'm not saying they're not going to
  535. 18:46grow, by the way. I I agree that they're
  536. 18:47going to keep growing. It's just the
  537. 18:49nuance dynamics now agree
  538. 18:51>> are changing because you also have like
  539. 18:53Jev
  540. 18:54>> right shows up like like there there's a
  541. 18:55lot of stuff that are happening where uh
  542. 18:57you made a comment 3 months ago
  543. 19:00>> the easy money and AI is over.
  544. 19:01>> Yeah.
  545. 19:02>> We are now like I'm fully on board with
  546. 19:04that and I think that it's becoming very
  547. 19:05obvious you can't just be like the big
  548. 19:07model labs get all the money.
  549. 19:08>> Correct. And and that part I agree with
  550. 19:10the the thing the thing that as a user
  551. 19:13and using my son as like an example
  552. 19:17we both will crap on Gemini.
  553. 19:20>> I don't when the new model comes out
  554. 19:22well this is good.
  555. 19:23>> It makes mistakes that I have open AI
  556. 19:26and claude fix constantly.
  557. 19:30>> So I think people that use it all the
  558. 19:32time and that are scared of mistakes and
  559. 19:34hallucinations and things like that know
  560. 19:36the models that are more likely to do
  561. 19:37this. I think when you make the decision
  562. 19:40to go to open source and you go to these
  563. 19:43I I personally believe on my own
  564. 19:45experience, it better be for stuff that
  565. 19:47isn't super important. That's why I
  566. 19:49brought up the Jane Street and
  567. 19:50Millennium. I don't agree that all these
  568. 19:53models are even close to the same. I've
  569. 19:56used I I stopped my uh Open Claw and my
  570. 19:59Hermes because I was able to do things
  571. 20:02in Claude and Anthropic that or in in
  572. 20:04Claude and Open AI which were different.
  573. 20:06And then when Grockot came out and Muse
  574. 20:08came out and everything else, Muse is
  575. 20:10not as good a model anything close to
  576. 20:12what open but it doesn't need to be.
  577. 20:13It's just doing basic stuff for me. So I
  578. 20:15think we're saying the same thing. I
  579. 20:17just think we agree on this.
  580. 20:18>> I think the hardest thing for people to
  581. 20:19understand and the most important thing
  582. 20:20that I want to get across to people,
  583. 20:23you've heard Jeb's paradox.
  584. 20:25We're at that point right now. What
  585. 20:27happened the last two months may have
  586. 20:30been a air pocket on one way which is
  587. 20:33this token cost thing but we're entering
  588. 20:35a very very dangerous period now for the
  589. 20:38next year.
  590. 20:39>> The usage is going to skyrocket and we
  591. 20:42don't have enough compute.
  592. 20:43>> So this gets back to the other thing
  593. 20:45OpenAI and Anthropic own.
  594. 20:48I listened to the interview with the
  595. 20:50instinct founder.
  596. 20:52>> Did you listen to it?
  597. 20:52>> Yeah. Noah on uh invest like the best.
  598. 20:54Yeah. He specifically highlighted that
  599. 20:57he underestimated his compute needs.
  600. 21:00>> He said, I think he said 40% of his time
  601. 21:02is being spent trying to accumulate
  602. 21:03compute and he's having a hard time
  603. 21:05because he's growing 10% per day. And so
  604. 21:09he's like, "How do I project out? If I
  605. 21:11double my compute, you know, I basically
  606. 21:13use it all up in a couple weeks and then
  607. 21:15how do I kind of project how much I'm
  608. 21:17going to need?"
  609. 21:17>> So here's the scary thing. We're
  610. 21:20entering the hype the the the parabola
  611. 21:23of efficiency and compute as well with
  612. 21:25Vera Rubin. So Blackwells were great.
  613. 21:27You the efficiency of the chips. Well,
  614. 21:29now we're getting the Vera Rubin. Who
  615. 21:31owns all of that? The big guys do.
  616. 21:33>> I mean, it's the speculation between
  617. 21:36semi analysis and what I've heard on the
  618. 21:38all in pod is that open anthropic
  619. 21:41combined will own up to 50% of all the
  620. 21:44compute coming online. I mean, isn't
  621. 21:47that a monopoly or a duopoly of some
  622. 21:50sort on compute? And so, this is where I
  623. 21:53I don't think you can make the
  624. 21:55assumptions that they won't actually go
  625. 21:57up again sometime next year just because
  626. 21:59they have the compute, which means two
  627. 22:00things. Number one, they can service
  628. 22:01more people uh more companies. And
  629. 22:04number two, their models start getting
  630. 22:06better and better because you need more
  631. 22:09computing power to actually get to the
  632. 22:11level of the IQ that they eventually
  633. 22:12want to get to for the physical
  634. 22:14sciences.
  635. 22:15So um
  636. 22:17let's talk about the personal agents
  637. 22:19maybe as a uh an area where I think
  638. 22:21tokens are going to continue to expand.
  639. 22:23We now have just this past week um Robin
  640. 22:26Hood announced a bunch of agentic
  641. 22:28trading. We have uh OpenAI launched
  642. 22:32dots. We have uh Ryan Sirant launched an
  643. 22:37AI agent within his simple app which
  644. 22:39again is like a very applied AI type
  645. 22:41thing. We have Muse, which was already
  646. 22:44out, but now is going after small
  647. 22:45business.
  648. 22:46>> We have uh Noah, the founder of
  649. 22:49Instinct, who's basically come out and
  650. 22:50said they're doing over a billion
  651. 22:51dollars of transactions, 40% I think
  652. 22:53it's on travel, that gave a bunch of
  653. 22:55numbers in terms of what how what's
  654. 22:56going on, how they're doing it, growing
  655. 22:5810% day overday. Uh with Sylvia, we
  656. 23:01announced now you can text it in a more
  657. 23:03agentic way, then have to go into a
  658. 23:05archaic dashboard and use it that way.
  659. 23:09And then I don't I've lost count. I we
  660. 23:11would spend an hour of me rattling off
  661. 23:13every single product launch that I saw
  662. 23:15from some net new agent that got
  663. 23:18released, including I don't know if you
  664. 23:20saw this one. There is one I don't want
  665. 23:22to say the name because I don't know how
  666. 23:24legit it is that you can start with the
  667. 23:26agent as a baby and raise it. [snorts]
  668. 23:29>> I I haven't heard this
  669. 23:30>> launch video was awesome. Looked cool.
  670. 23:32Hilarious. I'm sure they've got some
  671. 23:34pitch as to why that's better, but like
  672. 23:37we're we're [laughter]
  673. 23:38we're in banana land a little bit on the
  674. 23:40AI agents already. How are you
  675. 23:43evaluating personal agents? What are you
  676. 23:45using? And where do you think, you know,
  677. 23:47is there consolidation or like are you
  678. 23:48going to have 20 agents across 20
  679. 23:50different use cases?
  680. 23:51>> Okay, so there's two parts to this and I
  681. 23:53want to make sure the second part
  682. 23:55everyone hears first um in terms of you
  683. 23:58getting back to it.
  684. 24:00Every day since I put Muse on my phone,
  685. 24:03I have bought more and more crypto every
  686. 24:06single day.
  687. 24:07>> Because Muse told you or because you
  688. 24:09just become more convinced that
  689. 24:10>> because this to me, so I I people have
  690. 24:13watched this together now for a while.
  691. 24:16Last year when I was frustrated by just
  692. 24:18like listening to people not understand
  693. 24:20the Micron story about token growth,
  694. 24:23the agent stuff with Muse and all of
  695. 24:26this, it just blows me away every day
  696. 24:28with more things that I can do with it.
  697. 24:30And
  698. 24:32so let me answer that part. I want to
  699. 24:34get to the crypto connection because I
  700. 24:36think if anyone should be demanding from
  701. 24:39their Fidelity, their Robin Hood,
  702. 24:41everything that they have the ability of
  703. 24:42at least thinking about this. I really
  704. 24:44do believe that we're entering something
  705. 24:46that is just breathtaking
  706. 24:48cryptoconnected
  707. 24:49to agents. So on the agent side, it
  708. 24:52started with Grockbot and that was a
  709. 24:53game changer for me. Now I use Grockbot
  710. 24:55more for the work stuff. I have one
  711. 24:58chief of staff who I go to when I want
  712. 25:02to have a meeting with the agents or I
  713. 25:04want to send off the agents. But
  714. 25:05underneath that chief of staff, I now
  715. 25:07have two middle management chief of
  716. 25:09staff.
  717. 25:09>> Uh-oh. Middle managers. Middle managers.
  718. 25:13Hey, pull up a chair. Let me tell you
  719. 25:14about automation. So I have one for AI,
  720. 25:17>> man. You capitalist pig. You going after
  721. 25:20the middle managers. Too much time in
  722. 25:21Morgan Stanley. So one one side is uh
  723. 25:25has got a an AI side. The other side has
  724. 25:27a crypto side. And I send them out to
  725. 25:29keep up on what's going on.
  726. 25:31What Muse did for me. And I think this
  727. 25:35is what people need to hear when they go
  728. 25:36Meta won. Meta didn't win anything. It's
  729. 25:39not even like there's there's [snorts]
  730. 25:42going to be so many personal AI and
  731. 25:44that's the big thing and that's why it
  732. 25:45matters so much is that when Apple comes
  733. 25:47out we're going to have a ton. And who
  734. 25:49do I think is going to be better at
  735. 25:50security? Apple or Meta. I'm I'm going
  736. 25:53to go with Apple. It's just my my guess.
  737. 25:54But regardless of that, Muse and all of
  738. 25:57them, if you haven't used them yet,
  739. 26:00I think you're missing the same way that
  740. 26:02when we talked about not understanding
  741. 26:04tokens, you're going to miss out on some
  742. 26:06activity to invest. I think with agents
  743. 26:09that my brain only goes one place which
  744. 26:11is there's no way for the current system
  745. 26:16to handle the speed and the ability to
  746. 26:18do things like this. It's just
  747. 26:21impossible. And I will give you one
  748. 26:25important thought process on this. So
  749. 26:26we've heard about agent swarms. So let's
  750. 26:28take the two parts of agents. The reason
  751. 26:30there's agent swarms now is the same
  752. 26:32reason that we have personal agents. We
  753. 26:34couldn't have personal agents unless we
  754. 26:36got to the point where we had agent
  755. 26:37swarms. Because at the end of the day,
  756. 26:39that's kind of what you're doing. You
  757. 26:41need to have enough IQ to be able to do
  758. 26:43all these different tasks, have the
  759. 26:45memory, have it, and agent swarms have
  760. 26:47the same thing. The reason this is
  761. 26:48important, the current system, when you
  762. 26:51go to wire money to someone, if you go
  763. 26:52to wire money to someone on a Friday at
  764. 26:543:00, it'll settle on Monday. Where's
  765. 26:58your money for the last two days?
  766. 27:00Where's it sitting? And I challenge
  767. 27:02anyone to actually know where their
  768. 27:04money is when they use a credit card to
  769. 27:06go buy something and it goes from your
  770. 27:08bank account to the merchant through the
  771. 27:10credit card. I keep hearing people tell
  772. 27:12me, "Well, Vis and Mastercard are going
  773. 27:13to be the winners in this." I'm like,
  774. 27:14"No, they're not. They have no chance. I
  775. 27:16I don't even know where this comes
  776. 27:17from." And this argument comes up all
  777. 27:19the time. the amount of steps between
  778. 27:22buying something and settling something.
  779. 27:24The longer it takes, even if it's 20
  780. 27:27seconds versus one second, that's
  781. 27:29multiple times for an agent swarm to
  782. 27:31come in and steal the money along. You
  783. 27:33need every single part of it. So, you
  784. 27:35remember the cold wallet story, right?
  785. 27:37[snorts]
  786. 27:38Crypto is based on cryptography. Like,
  787. 27:40this is going to be a necessity to make
  788. 27:42sure that it's instant cuz that is the
  789. 27:44best defense on anything. If you're
  790. 27:46worried about someone robbing your
  791. 27:48house, but they will only rob it when
  792. 27:49you're not there, well, the best thing
  793. 27:50would be to go outside for a second,
  794. 27:52come back in. The longer you leave, you
  795. 27:53go on vacation, the higher the
  796. 27:54probability. I think people need to
  797. 27:56start understanding that the the the
  798. 27:58lineup of cryptography to AIS is not
  799. 28:01just about them wanting to do things
  800. 28:03fast. It's not just the cost. It is also
  801. 28:06the time of risk against agent swarms.
  802. 28:10And I think that's going to become more
  803. 28:11of a story. This is the reason why every
  804. 28:13time I use it, I'm like, "Oh my gosh,
  805. 28:14this is so obvious that number one,
  806. 28:19we didn't need crypto. We didn't need
  807. 28:21the tokens. We didn't need the altcoins.
  808. 28:23We needed the layer ones to kind of draw
  809. 28:26capital in to build out the
  810. 28:27infrastructure that was necessary. So,
  811. 28:30when you have the L1's growing and
  812. 28:32continuing to get bigger and bigger,
  813. 28:33well, that means the ecosystem is
  814. 28:34getting bigger. And as Michael Sailor
  815. 28:36says, the capital structure can now
  816. 28:37change because we actually have digital
  817. 28:38collateral. We have Bitcoin. We have
  818. 28:40Ethereum. So we have the programmable
  819. 28:41side but you need that thing that
  820. 28:44actually makes it well this is the use
  821. 28:46case and I said the same thing if you go
  822. 28:47back and look when Uber started Uber
  823. 28:50didn't start as a company in terms of
  824. 28:52the idea until the app store happened
  825. 28:55then they went oh we can do this so I
  826. 28:57think you're going to see innovation
  827. 28:58after innovation related to this so what
  828. 29:00I have spent my time on as someone who
  829. 29:03listens to so many podcasts a week
  830. 29:06[snorts] very seldom now do I listen to
  831. 29:08moonshots very seldom do I into any of
  832. 29:11these in
  833. 29:13>> they've been dominated by crypto now and
  834. 29:16not rah hoodie crypto I mean the
  835. 29:21functional use cases and different ways
  836. 29:23to value these because I am getting
  837. 29:26constantly I mean this has happened
  838. 29:28three times this week calls with hedge
  839. 29:33fund and ass and asset man let's just
  840. 29:34say asset managers
  841. 29:36tell me about why I should be investing
  842. 29:39in crypto
  843. 29:40These conversations never existed. When
  844. 29:42you and I talked, you gave me all the
  845. 29:44horror stories of walking into rooms.
  846. 29:46>> They are asking you in terms of I hear
  847. 29:49you talking about crypto and I disagree
  848. 29:52so convince me or they are saying I am
  849. 29:54interested. Help me better understand
  850. 29:56you know where to put the money that I
  851. 29:57want to invest.
  852. 29:58>> Yeah. The best analogy is um the door
  853. 30:01was closed and you had to pry it open.
  854. 30:04>> They're looking through the door.
  855. 30:05>> I see. they they're they're interested
  856. 30:07and the reason is and this is the
  857. 30:09>> this is the Wall Street FOMO building
  858. 30:11up.
  859. 30:11>> I I don't I so I think it is coming from
  860. 30:14from two directions. One is every day
  861. 30:16Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, City
  862. 30:17Bank, they're all involved in it. All of
  863. 30:20them. They're racing for tokenization.
  864. 30:22They're racing for stable coins and
  865. 30:23that's the key thing. But then there's
  866. 30:25another argument which is
  867. 30:28the connection of agents to crypto makes
  868. 30:30sense. Like that's the whole point is
  869. 30:32that there's an element of oh this makes
  870. 30:35sense. And the reason I'm so emphatic
  871. 30:37and pounding the table that this is so
  872. 30:38important
  873. 30:40>> is and I don't I don't know how to
  874. 30:41pronounce Ilia's last name from near
  875. 30:44>> but if you go back and listen to an
  876. 30:46interview with him in 2023 on a podcast
  877. 30:49called No Priors
  878. 30:52>> great podcast
  879. 30:53>> great podcast and but this was a very
  880. 30:55futuristic look of where we are today.
  881. 30:57So in 2023 if I said to you okay he did
  882. 30:59this interview it was only 6 months
  883. 31:01after
  884. 31:02Gen AI started chatbt was launched how
  885. 31:05could a guy have this much vision on the
  886. 31:07agentic world connecting to it literally
  887. 31:09that's what near that's what he was
  888. 31:11talking about how could he have that
  889. 31:12vision because he was one of the
  890. 31:14co-authors on the transformer paper that
  891. 31:17led to generative AI so there's two
  892. 31:19things about that so I'm a logical guy
  893. 31:21like I I look at things and go I like
  894. 31:23listening to this guy this is great
  895. 31:26his value as one of the transformer page
  896. 31:29co-authors when AI took over and people
  897. 31:32were paying hundreds of millions if not
  898. 31:35billions of dollars for humans. You
  899. 31:37don't think Ilia got a call and could
  900. 31:38have left near and gone there but he
  901. 31:40believes in this there there's a lot of
  902. 31:43elements for me as like a founder that I
  903. 31:44like listening to and getting to know
  904. 31:46the people. So I think if people go back
  905. 31:48and listen to that, forget investing in
  906. 31:50NER. Just go listen to the story and go
  907. 31:53listen to someone who believes agents
  908. 31:56have to be part of crypto back in so
  909. 31:59this was also when crypto was on its way
  910. 32:01down everything was breaking down. He
  911. 32:04was saying when agents are here that's
  912. 32:06when the connection will be. And
  913. 32:07literally what he said is they will be
  914. 32:09the economic actors of the future. And
  915. 32:12so that's why every day that I sit there
  916. 32:13I'm like oh I know what's happening now.
  917. 32:15And so if I get off the call, and this
  918. 32:16happened to me once this week, I'm
  919. 32:18meeting someone for breakfast coming up
  920. 32:20soon,
  921. 32:22has two portfolios, follows me in AI,
  922. 32:24he's a subscriber, he's been doing well,
  923. 32:26and he's got all these names, but then
  924. 32:28at the same point, he's got a lot of
  925. 32:30crypto, which he told me about. He's
  926. 32:31like, I don't need any more crypto. I
  927. 32:33still have stuff from 2021 and 2022. And
  928. 32:35that was an interesting thing because I
  929. 32:36remember hearing that after the do
  930. 32:38bubble. All the people that I knew that
  931. 32:39bought a lot of these things, they
  932. 32:41didn't put more money into it because
  933. 32:42they still had PTSD from what they went
  934. 32:44through. I think there's a a period here
  935. 32:46where the asset managers are looking to
  936. 32:49invest. I think most of what's driving
  937. 32:51crypto right now is a combination of new
  938. 32:54players coming in. This is what a bull
  939. 32:56market is about. And you're right, FOMO
  940. 32:58is going to start to kick in very, very
  941. 32:59soon. I said before when Bitcoin got
  942. 33:01above 82,000, that was the confirmation
  943. 33:03of the bull trend. I think we're in
  944. 33:05that. The fundamental side's getting
  945. 33:07stronger and stronger by the day. I I
  946. 33:10think we're at a point where this stuff
  947. 33:12is about to kind of take off,
  948. 33:13particularly with what happened today
  949. 33:15with the unemployment rate being lower
  950. 33:17than expected. If you take everything
  951. 33:18that happened this week from the rate
  952. 33:20picture and you look at it and you're
  953. 33:22like, David Zervos brought into the Fed
  954. 33:24or brought into the Treasury, he wants
  955. 33:27he's he's a very creative guy. Uh we're
  956. 33:30going to he's he's being brought in to
  957. 33:31help get long-term rates lower. They did
  958. 33:34another buyback, another, you know,
  959. 33:35treasury uh yield curve, treasury uh
  960. 33:39twitch, whatever you want to call it in
  961. 33:41terms of the twisting of the back end
  962. 33:43versus the front end. We got a lower
  963. 33:45than expected PCE core. Now we got an
  964. 33:48unemployment number that came in weaker
  965. 33:50than expected with an hourly earnings
  966. 33:51that came in weaker than expected. So
  967. 33:53maybe rates settle here. They don't have
  968. 33:55to go down, guys. They just need to not
  969. 33:57be a story where every day they go up.
  970. 34:00And I think we could be staring at a a
  971. 34:01position coming out of the midterms
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  1026. 35:53>> You ever gone to a high school football
  1027. 35:54game
  1028. 35:55>> many times
  1029. 35:56>> and uh you see the the young men on the
  1030. 35:58sidelines, fourth quarter comes, they
  1031. 36:00start holding up the four fingers like
  1032. 36:02this.
  1033. 36:02>> Y
  1034. 36:02>> you don't know this, but the uh the OG
  1035. 36:04podcast viewers, every fourth quarter we
  1036. 36:07go like this. You know why?
  1037. 36:09>> Why?
  1038. 36:09>> Cuz crypto loves the fourth quarter. It
  1039. 36:11loves it. Like just like the high school
  1040. 36:13football team's like, "We win the fourth
  1041. 36:14quarter." Krypto's like, "We win the
  1042. 36:16fourth quarter." It's October 3rd. You
  1043. 36:18know, like you ever seen a bull right
  1044. 36:20before he stampedes, he kind of digs his
  1045. 36:22feet into the ground, throws up some
  1046. 36:24dust. October 3rd. That's what the bulls
  1047. 36:26do. [laughter]
  1048. 36:27>> And then it's fourth quarter. Like here
  1049. 36:29we go. I think it was over the summer
  1050. 36:31that when it first when we had the seven
  1051. 36:33sigma move that I reminded both the
  1052. 36:38audience and you that the viewpoint for
  1053. 36:40this year was that based on the work
  1054. 36:42being done by institutional investors
  1055. 36:46that when we came to the end of the year
  1056. 36:48something very important happened. So
  1057. 36:49this will match up with your fourth
  1058. 36:51quarter thing but I think this one's the
  1059. 36:52most important. It's for important for
  1060. 36:54people to hear. This is my mindset.
  1061. 36:55>> Jord is unbothered. He's just like get
  1062. 36:57out of here with this fourth quarter
  1063. 36:58course. Just give us a four.
  1064. 36:59four year cycle I don't care about and
  1065. 37:00this I don't care about but I do know
  1066. 37:02this
  1067. 37:04>> large allocators and decision makers
  1068. 37:06make really important decisions for the
  1069. 37:08following calendar year
  1070. 37:09>> in the fourth quarter
  1071. 37:10>> in the fourth quarter and the reason
  1072. 37:11that's important and particularly in the
  1073. 37:13final two months
  1074. 37:16they get paid on performance which
  1075. 37:18crystallizes sometime around that end of
  1076. 37:21the you know and into the beginning of
  1077. 37:23the year
  1078. 37:24>> oh there's somebody out there they're up
  1079. 37:25big right now they're selling and
  1080. 37:26they're not going to touch their
  1081. 37:27portfolio till December Exactly. And so
  1082. 37:30if you want to get involved with crypto,
  1083. 37:32they're doing their homework. The
  1084. 37:33problem they're running into, I've been
  1085. 37:34asked this many times. So what can I
  1086. 37:36buy? And I go, well, you can either buy
  1087. 37:37buy the, you know, the ETFs or the, you
  1088. 37:41know, the DATs of the various ones or
  1089. 37:44maybe there's five companies you public
  1090. 37:47stocks you can buy.
  1091. 37:49>> It's really hard, but they want to do
  1092. 37:51it. So, I think that's where the L1
  1093. 37:54start to become, you know, a
  1094. 37:56>> they're not going to drive things, but
  1095. 37:58they're there's going to be an
  1096. 37:59underlying bid for these things that
  1097. 38:01keeps the ecosystem grounded. And that
  1098. 38:03means that the beta is going to continue
  1099. 38:05to show up in the altcoins, but the beta
  1100. 38:07is going to be driven not by the
  1101. 38:08institutional managers until the
  1102. 38:11tokenization starts to happen. That's
  1103. 38:12why tokenization is so important.
  1104. 38:14>> So, there's two uh two data points that
  1105. 38:16I will uh I will share. Um, I think back
  1106. 38:18in May or June, I tweeted much to the uh
  1107. 38:21uh disappointment of all the AI bulls
  1108. 38:23and I said it's going to be glorious
  1109. 38:25when the AI profits rotate back into
  1110. 38:27Bitcoin and I was trolling a little bit,
  1111. 38:30but I do believe that, you know, a lot
  1112. 38:32of the crypto gains went into AI, people
  1113. 38:35continue, you got the momentum and now
  1114. 38:36you're going to kind of see this
  1115. 38:37rotation back. Um, it does feel like
  1116. 38:39that's starting to happen a little bit.
  1117. 38:41To your point, I don't think that the
  1118. 38:42interest in AI is going away. I just
  1119. 38:43think that people are becoming a little
  1120. 38:44bit more interested in Bitcoin and
  1121. 38:46crypto. So now you kind of have these
  1122. 38:47two technologies.
  1123. 38:48>> The second thing, uh, I am shocked right
  1124. 38:52now. I believe Sylvia is the only public
  1125. 38:55company that has AI and Bitcoin kind of
  1126. 38:57married together. It's a it's a little
  1127. 38:58bit of a weird way that we've done it.
  1128. 38:59>> Y,
  1129. 39:00>> I am very very shocked that maybe the
  1130. 39:03only ones you could assign to are like a
  1131. 39:05Coinbase or like a Robin Hood who have
  1132. 39:07like crypto products and then they're
  1133. 39:08like using AI, you know, in some form or
  1134. 39:10fashion. But I feel like this is
  1135. 39:14becoming somewhat of a more consensus
  1136. 39:15view that these two technologies are
  1137. 39:16going to benefit from each other and
  1138. 39:18it's going to be there. One of my
  1139. 39:19predictions for 2027 is you're going to
  1140. 39:22start to see an assault of public
  1141. 39:24markets where people they may be an AI,
  1142. 39:26you know, related business. They're
  1143. 39:27going to start trying to do crypto
  1144. 39:28stuff. Crypto will do more AI.
  1145. 39:30>> And so I think what investors are going
  1146. 39:31to have to try to figure out is like
  1147. 39:33where does the value acrew, right? So if
  1148. 39:36you look at take maybe Coinbase and
  1149. 39:37Robin Hood, Coinbase came from the
  1150. 39:39crypto world, Robin Hood comes from the
  1151. 39:40brokerage world. they kind of have ended
  1152. 39:41up in this like, you know, war over
  1153. 39:43who's going to be like the everything
  1154. 39:44exchange. Both great businesses. I think
  1155. 39:46both will do very well going forward,
  1156. 39:49but they have kind of like the DNA of
  1157. 39:51the company is a little bit different.
  1158. 39:53And so if you were like, hey, I want to
  1159. 39:54be more like 7030 crypto to AI, you
  1160. 39:56probably would go and buy a Coinbase. If
  1161. 39:58you want to be like 7030, you know,
  1162. 40:00equities, then or AI, you'd go to like
  1163. 40:02more Robin Hood.
  1164. 40:04>> That I think is actually much harder for
  1165. 40:06people to navigate. Again, going back to
  1166. 40:07this like all the easy money's gone.
  1167. 40:09>> Yep. If you're an institutional
  1168. 40:11allocator and you're like, "Okay, cool.
  1169. 40:12I believe in everything Jord's saying.
  1170. 40:15Where do I go put my money,
  1171. 40:17>> you're now almost getting like the the
  1172. 40:18more intricate decisions?" And so, one,
  1173. 40:21I think that uh similar to how we talked
  1174. 40:22about like lawyers, advice will become
  1175. 40:24more valuable than the action of just
  1176. 40:25like filling out the documents.
  1177. 40:27>> Your philosophy is going to become
  1178. 40:31consensus. And now it is going to become
  1179. 40:33much more about like what are the
  1180. 40:35specific names? How do I think about
  1181. 40:36portfolio construction? How do I think
  1182. 40:38about onetime purchase versus dollar
  1183. 40:39cost averaging? I mean, like very
  1184. 40:41specific, you know, kind of tactical
  1185. 40:42things.
  1186. 40:44>> This is where uh so I'm and you and I
  1187. 40:48haven't talked about this, but I'll I'll
  1188. 40:49I'll bring in. So, because I have
  1189. 40:52subscribers that want to invest in the
  1190. 40:5546 name index that I created, they want
  1191. 40:58to
  1192. 40:58>> around tokenization.
  1193. 40:59>> Yeah. Well, it Yeah. Around it's really
  1194. 41:01the crypto ecosystem. So, this is
  1195. 41:03really, hey, agents are going to do
  1196. 41:05things. Okay. This is the entire
  1197. 41:06ecosystem that should benefit. And
  1198. 41:09rather than you go out and pick five
  1199. 41:11tokens, I think the beauty of the way I
  1200. 41:15put it together is equal weight. It's
  1201. 41:17got the L1's and then it's got a bunch
  1202. 41:19of L2s, 46 names. Just uh you're not
  1203. 41:22allowed to say this, but I have a uh
  1204. 41:24report here. Um let me look to make sure
  1205. 41:27I got this right. The Visceral Labs 46
  1206. 41:29name index, which by the way, we got to
  1207. 41:30get you a better name. [laughter] Visor
  1208. 41:33Labs.
  1209. 41:34It's like uh you know for for whatever
  1210. 41:36people say about Trump good or bad the
  1211. 41:37guy's good at branding and super
  1212. 41:38intelligence probably is a better name.
  1213. 41:40The Visser Labs 46 name index is up year
  1214. 41:42to date 50%. Bitcoin is down 3.2% as of
  1215. 41:46the close yesterday.
  1216. 41:48>> So that I think gives a a pretty clear
  1217. 41:50this is outperforming Bitcoin as a
  1218. 41:52benchmark.
  1219. 41:53>> And if you would have looked the prior
  1220. 41:55year or you know when Bitcoin peaked,
  1221. 41:57Bitcoin was outperforming and all of the
  1222. 41:59altcoins were were underperforming.
  1223. 42:01That's what makes this so important. It
  1224. 42:02ties it back to AI. What I was going to
  1225. 42:04say is I'm reaching out now to asset
  1226. 42:05managers. So, anyone out there who's
  1227. 42:08doing anything. I ran ETFs
  1228. 42:11>> if you breathe.
  1229. 42:13>> I ran ETFs at Morgan Stanley. I traded
  1230. 42:15programs. I traded derivatives. The
  1231. 42:18future is to give both individual
  1232. 42:21investors and asset managers what
  1233. 42:23they're going to be able to do within a
  1234. 42:25year, which is some kind of tokenized
  1235. 42:26way to do this agentically. This
  1236. 42:28compares So, I'm going to set this up
  1237. 42:31myself. I'm going to do this. Um, I'm
  1238. 42:34also going to connect to API keys to be
  1239. 42:36able to do the research on crypto. At
  1240. 42:38this point, you should be able to turn
  1241. 42:41everything into an investment dashboard
  1242. 42:44that has the 46 name index. You trade it
  1243. 42:46with a push of a button with agents. I'm
  1244. 42:49going to do that on my own and I'm going
  1245. 42:50to set it up. And I don't know if Robin
  1246. 42:52Hood can do it yet. I don't know if
  1247. 42:53Coinbase can do it yet. But anyone else
  1248. 42:55out there, um, I reached out to Bill
  1249. 42:57Barte. I'm I'm reaching out. anyone
  1250. 42:59wants to come to me and work with me on
  1251. 43:01this. I don't want to launch an ETF, but
  1252. 43:03I do want my subscribers to have the
  1253. 43:05ability of investing that way because
  1254. 43:07that's the way the future is going to
  1255. 43:08be. An agent can go out and do all 46
  1256. 43:11names, equal weight the whole thing, and
  1257. 43:12then you have it done within seconds.
  1258. 43:15We're at that point where it should be
  1259. 43:16able to get done. The only nuance is
  1260. 43:18there's 42
  1261. 43:20tokens and then there's four public
  1262. 43:21stocks. So, in the world of the merging
  1263. 43:24of tokenization,
  1264. 43:25it's a race to see who can handle Jord's
  1265. 43:27portfolio first. [snorts]
  1266. 43:30>> Um, I like this idea. I do think this is
  1267. 43:32where the world is going. Uh, I do not
  1268. 43:34think it will happen as fast as everyone
  1269. 43:36claims it will. And um I will uh
  1270. 43:39introduce you to uh a couple lawyers uh
  1271. 43:41because as we've gone down this path um
  1272. 43:45>> there are a lot of very antiquated rules
  1273. 43:50around how they will empower this to
  1274. 43:52happen.
  1275. 43:53>> And so uh I'm an investor in a company
  1276. 43:55called Autopilot. They do something
  1277. 43:57similar different but but similar. I
  1278. 43:58think they've done a great job. Um you
  1279. 44:00now are seeing the agentic trading e
  1280. 44:02Toro, Robin Hood, Coinbase like they're
  1281. 44:04all going into that. Um, public has this
  1282. 44:08like describe something and it will then
  1283. 44:10create an index for you kind of a custom
  1284. 44:13index. Um, I think maybe you can kind of
  1285. 44:15trade off of it um in the product. Super
  1286. 44:19take we we recently talked about in
  1287. 44:20terms of like you know I think snow's
  1288. 44:22going to snow a lot in the mountain like
  1289. 44:24how do I invest along that theme? Like
  1290. 44:25this is definitely where the world is
  1291. 44:26headed.
  1292. 44:28>> What I think is maybe most interesting
  1293. 44:30is twofold. Creating it and putting it
  1294. 44:33on easy. how do people sell or rotate or
  1295. 44:38that type of stuff I think is we just
  1296. 44:40need to figure it out. I don't think
  1297. 44:41people have really spent a lot of time
  1298. 44:42there.
  1299. 44:42>> And then the second thing is um the
  1300. 44:46rules have to catch up with this type of
  1301. 44:48investing because the rules are frankly
  1302. 44:51situated for ETFs, mutual funds, like
  1303. 44:53that stuff. This is the future.
  1304. 44:56But like if I said to you, hey, you got
  1305. 44:58to go become an RA to do this. You
  1306. 44:59probably would be like, eh, I'm not
  1307. 45:01interested. I don't know if you have to,
  1308. 45:02right? But the platforms for sure, if
  1309. 45:05they're going to empower this stuff,
  1310. 45:06there are legal things that they need to
  1311. 45:08do. We're entering a weird world where
  1312. 45:11like if the agents are doing the
  1313. 45:13trading, like are the agents regulated?
  1314. 45:16You know, one of the things I've always
  1315. 45:17talked about is uh in crypto back in the
  1316. 45:19day, uh there's certain things that
  1317. 45:22exchanges have to file with the SEC.
  1318. 45:25Well, if it's decentralized,
  1319. 45:28how does it file? And then like also how
  1320. 45:30do you enforce the rules? So
  1321. 45:31decentralization for exchanges is an
  1322. 45:33interesting thing because regulators
  1323. 45:34weren't like you're not even trying to
  1324. 45:36be malicious just like how do we
  1325. 45:38interface with each other.
  1326. 45:40I think this is now coming in a weird
  1327. 45:42way. What you're talking about is almost
  1328. 45:43like a decentralized ETF.
  1329. 45:45How do how does the regulators how do
  1330. 45:47the rules interface?
  1331. 45:49>> I don't think they have an answer yet.
  1332. 45:50They're they're trying to figure it out
  1333. 45:51but they don't have an answer.
  1334. 45:52>> So here's what's going to happen a year
  1335. 45:54from now. And I keep saying a year from
  1336. 45:55now because my mindset is that we are at
  1337. 45:57the micron moment as I call it where
  1338. 45:59people just underestimate how fast this
  1339. 46:01stuff goes. And if I'm right, uh,
  1340. 46:06every wealth advisor,
  1341. 46:09every uh, wealth management firm is
  1342. 46:12going to be in a very very difficult
  1343. 46:14position a year from now.
  1344. 46:16their clients are going to start hearing
  1345. 46:18about how people are making a lot of
  1346. 46:20money in crypto and they're going to
  1347. 46:22hear crypto and rather than crypto I
  1348. 46:25want everyone to just think they're
  1349. 46:27making money in tokens
  1350. 46:29well stocks are going to be tokenized
  1351. 46:31for sure now will they be the same way
  1352. 46:35there's going to be a merging here but
  1353. 46:36if people go well I I heard you know I
  1354. 46:39heard Joe and Mary just made 30 times
  1355. 46:41their money over here this is the weird
  1356. 46:42part about if I'm right about what's
  1357. 46:45happening and you have to Go back to the
  1358. 46:46Micron example. Never in my time have I
  1359. 46:50seen what I saw with my agentic
  1360. 46:52portfolio infrastructure, which is I
  1361. 46:54thought Micron would double. I thought
  1362. 46:56it might triple 14 times. Now that was
  1363. 46:59totally based on the earnings growth.
  1364. 47:02>> I see the crypto volumes, the token
  1365. 47:04volumes going through the roof because
  1366. 47:05of tokenization and because of stable
  1367. 47:08coin payments,
  1368. 47:09>> because of AI agents. If it wasn't for
  1369. 47:12agents, which will speed this process up
  1370. 47:13to make it easier, I wouldn't be as
  1371. 47:15optimistic on it. So, it started now and
  1372. 47:19I think everyone listening who watches
  1373. 47:21us regularly of which we have a goodiz
  1374. 47:22audience. This is a problem you want to
  1375. 47:25be ahead of both as an in personal
  1376. 47:27investor, you want to start doing your
  1377. 47:29research. This weekend when I go
  1378. 47:30through, I will do another video on
  1379. 47:31crypto plus my regular weekly video. I
  1380. 47:34am going to highlight seven separate
  1381. 47:37podcasts. I not only spoke to Ilyia at
  1382. 47:39near I spoke to William Mgayar who
  1383. 47:41you've had on he was amazing brilliant
  1384. 47:44brilliant guy he's got a new book coming
  1385. 47:46out it's going to take another 3 to 6
  1386. 47:48months I think for his book to come out
  1387. 47:49you have to be on top of these guys
  1388. 47:50Joseph Chalam or Shalom who was at
  1389. 47:53BlackRock
  1390. 47:54>> all over it
  1391. 47:56they're all over it and they're telling
  1392. 47:57you why to invest in it and they're
  1393. 47:59telling you why this moment matters now
  1394. 48:01and a lot of it has to do with the
  1395. 48:02regulatory side but most of it has to do
  1396. 48:04with the three of them saw this vision a
  1397. 48:07long time ago playing out and they're
  1398. 48:09all respectable people with different
  1399. 48:11backgrounds. One traditional Wall
  1400. 48:13Street, one Napster, one uh uh Google.
  1401. 48:16Seriously, I mean, when I get a
  1402. 48:18diversity of people that are very, very
  1403. 48:20bright, and I'm going to be putting six
  1404. 48:22podcasts from the three of them up this
  1405. 48:24weekend, you got to go watch this stuff
  1406. 48:26and be on top of it. Ladies and
  1407. 48:28gentlemen, that's it. I appreciate all
  1408. 48:29of you guys watching. We got a lot of
  1409. 48:31new people who've been watching this
  1410. 48:32lately. We appreciate you. Make sure you
  1411. 48:33subscribe to the channel, tell your
  1412. 48:34friends, text us to somebody, leave a
  1413. 48:36funny comment for Jordy. The funniest
  1414. 48:38ones to actually screenshot and send to
  1415. 48:39him sometimes. It makes him laugh, think
  1416. 48:41that we're all smart over here. Uh, make
  1417. 48:43sure you go to YouTube, check out Jordy
  1418. 48:45Visser. Just type in Jordy Visser. Jordy
  1419. 48:47with an I. And hit subscribe there.
  1420. 48:49That's the digital thank you to him
  1421. 48:50doing such a great job every single
  1422. 48:51week. And then go and check out Sylvia.
  1423. 48:53Go to sylvia.com. Silvia.com if you want
  1424. 48:56to use AI to better manage your finances
  1425. 48:58and your portfolio. We've got a very
  1426. 49:00interesting announcement coming out on
  1427. 49:02Monday. Just a little alpha for all of
  1428. 49:03you.

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