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I’m having a hard time stepping away from ChatGPT. Even with its flaws, it’s a very powerful consumer AI product. I admire how you can repeat prompts to get responses worded differently yet equally accurate. As I think about the…

US Healthcare accounts for 20% of the GDP. It’s not only a massive TAM, but it’s a sector that remains resilient even in the face of economic downturn. At the peak of the Great Recession (October 2009), the national unemployment…

I was nervous going into Google earnings. For the past month, I’ve been expecting cautionary September guidance from big tech, with Google and Microsoft results being the first real test. Google’s June quarter was essentially inline with expectations but a…

I’ve written a lot about augmented reality over the past five years. That’s not surprising, since we started Loup in January of 2017 and the opportunity of merging physical and virtual worlds with AR was one of our five cornerstone…

Gene and Doug discuss: How the U.S Senate’s bipartisan Open App Markets Act (S. 2710) will impact our digital ecosystem. The bill was passed with a 20-2 vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee, and aims to penalize developers with what…

Gene and Doug discuss: Google is implementing its Privacy Sandbox for Android OS, and we believe it will be more advertiser-friendly than IDFA. While some have compared Google’s changes to that of Apple, it seems that Google is allowing for…

This was originally posted on Doug’s blog, Uncomfortable Profit. The most powerful question in investing is: What is something you do today that everyone is going to do in the future, and the market doesn’t know it? Thus begins the search…

Gene and Andrew discuss: GOOGL reported Q4 earnings this afternoon with a 32% growth y/y, which is a deceleration from 41% reported last quarter. To follow in Big Tech earnings — FB will report on February 2 and AMZN on…

Gene and Doug share their thoughts on: Last week’s earning reports from MSFT, AAPL and TSLA. The takeaway is that the bar remains high for Big Tech. A preview of upcoming earning calls from GOOGL (Feb. 1), FB (Feb. 2),…

Takeaways: Netflix missed their guidance for December and guided March sub adds down by 64%. While it’s common for Netflix to guide below the Street, the magnitude of the guide down is greater than typical. Netflix is now trading at…

Gene and Doug discuss three topics that caught their attention today: Takeaways: Today’s news that Blackberry has terminated its services is a reminder that the company was first on the market to inspire phone addiction. Smartphones leveled up user addiction…

Over the last five years, we’ve made a habit of offering a few predictions for the year ahead. Here’s what we’re anticipating in 2022: 1. Apple and Facebook will duel for the spot as the top-performing FAANG stock in 2022,…