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Is AI in a Bubble Right Now?

In this episode, we explore whether the current AI market is experiencing a bubble, particularly focusing on AI stocks like Nvidia. The discussion delves into valuations, revenue generation, and the s...

Is AI in a Bubble Right Now?
Is AI in a Bubble Right Now?
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spk_0 Do you believe that AI is in a bubble right now?
spk_0 More specifically, AI stocks.
spk_0 So when you look at like an Nvidia, for example,
spk_0 or you look at any of these other tech stocks,
spk_0 do you believe it's in a bubble?
spk_0 Or do you believe it's more, do you think it's like 1999?
spk_0 Or what do you think it's like?
spk_0 Are you talking about the valuations or the revenue?
spk_0 Both actually.
spk_0 So let's look at value, because people tend to look at valuations first.
spk_0 But I like to look at both valuation and revenue, right?
spk_0 So if we look at an aggregate, how do you look at it right now?
spk_0 So I don't know if valuations are in a bubble or not.
spk_0 Mm-hmm.
spk_0 Well, I look at the Nvidia's ours.
spk_0 They're the shovels, the fixes, the acts of the gold rush.
spk_0 Do I think there is a lot of fluff and AI companies
spk_0 that are gonna fail?
spk_0 Yes.
spk_0 Do I think the energy companies, the Nvidia's and stuff like that,
spk_0 are gonna get crushed?
spk_0 No, I think they're gonna keep generating more revenue
spk_0 for a very long time.
spk_0 Does that mean that their stock is gonna go up or down?
spk_0 That part I don't know.
spk_0 But they have so much demand, because think about how much AI can power
spk_0 from helping with cancer research and new drugs and formulas
spk_0 and all this kind of stuff.
spk_0 It has solid use case.
spk_0 The problem I'm seeing in AI, and this is what some people could assume
spk_0 is a bubble.
spk_0 And what's a 24-hour VC-Harry something?
spk_0 20 VC.
spk_0 20 VC.
spk_0 What's his name, Harry?
spk_0 He's stepping.
spk_0
spk_0 And he talked about how the valuations are just becoming ridiculous.
spk_0 He posted something on X, I think a few weeks ago.
spk_0 We're seeing a lot of crap companies generate tons of revenue.
spk_0 I'm not gendered tons of money.
spk_0 Get a really high valuation when they shouldn't be.
spk_0 A perfect example of this was I was talking to an AI company
spk_0 in the video space.
spk_0 They do well into the eight figures in revenue.
spk_0 And they're talking about how their company is worth
spk_0 call it a half-a-billionish dollars.
spk_0 And I looked at it and I was like,
spk_0 Google has a better product.
spk_0 And Google's product is free to cheaper.
spk_0 Yep, right?
spk_0 And I was like, I don't understand why people need to use your product
spk_0 when Google's product runs circles around you.
spk_0 And oh, by the way, they can make it free.
spk_0 And they're like, no, I'm like, yes.
spk_0 If that video product helps advertisers spend more money on Google ads
spk_0 and they go from call it 300 billion in ad revenue to 350,
spk_0 they don't mind losing a billion dollars to give away that product for free
spk_0 completely to generate 50 more billion in ad revenue.
spk_0 And that's where I see a bubble in which a lot of companies
spk_0 like the Jasper's of the world were funded with high valuations
spk_0 when it never really made sense because it's what.
spk_0 So open AI creates an API.
spk_0 You can do this on chat GPT.
spk_0 Sure, Jasper is creating some unique features,
spk_0 but you can do most of it with the open API.
spk_0 Jasper was interesting back in the day before chat GPT came out
spk_0 because it was chat GPT-esque, right?
spk_0 And that's where they're accruing the value.
spk_0 And then, well, what happened?
spk_0 Not so much anymore.
spk_0 They actually still have a lot of employees.
spk_0 You see that? I checked on LinkedIn.
spk_0 Yeah, the extra box president,
spk_0 Tim Young is the CEO and runs it.
spk_0 I don't know what their revenue is,
spk_0 but I've read something online at 50, 60, whatever, million dollars.
spk_0 Yeah. Don't get me wrong, great business.
spk_0 Yeah. But SaaS companies are not valued at a billion dollars plus
spk_0 and a multi-billion dollar valuation.
spk_0 I know it's more than a billion.
spk_0 I don't know if it was multi-billion,
spk_0 but I know it was more than a billion.
spk_0 I think it was like two.
spk_0 That's what I read.
spk_0 Yeah.
spk_0 I think it was one-and-change.
spk_0 You could be right.
spk_0 I remember two or one point five if you want to,
spk_0 you're compelled to search it.
spk_0 Okay, let me give you my take on this.
spk_0 So the reason why I brought this topic up,
spk_0 so is AI a bubble right now?
spk_0 I don't believe AI is an bubble.
spk_0 Go ahead.
spk_0 One point five.
spk_0 One point five.
spk_0 See?
spk_0 See?
spk_0 Okay.
spk_0 So is AI an bubble?
spk_0 I don't believe so.
spk_0 And here's the reason.
spk_0 Because if we go back to the concept of Gevin's paradox,
spk_0 right, when you think about the electricity,
spk_0 electricity back in the day,
spk_0 you think about the internet back in the day.
spk_0 When you and I,
spk_0 when our internet speeds started to get faster and faster,
spk_0 what started happening?
spk_0 We started using it more and more and more.
spk_0 When we're getting more and more tokens now,
spk_0 really what we're buying is intelligence,
spk_0 the cost of intelligence, right?
spk_0 The cost for us to code things.
spk_0 Like we just mentioned the efficiencies
spk_0 we're seeing with our engineers, our developers, right?
spk_0 So I'm literally arguing with a finance YouTuber right now
spk_0 on this.
spk_0 And I bet I'm $10,000 that here's my bet.
spk_0 You can tell me if my bet's unreasonable.
spk_0 But I basically said, look,
spk_0 you look at the usage.
spk_0 It's going up right now.
spk_0 Companies are literally cutting headcount.
spk_0 Not saying that's a good thing,
spk_0 but they are cutting, that means they're seeing value somewhere, right?
spk_0 If a center's going to cut 11,000 Salesforce,
spk_0 cut 4,000 and Walmart's like,
spk_0 we're going to keep our headcount flat.
spk_0 Okay, something's happening, right?
spk_0 So if he says, okay, well,
spk_0 you know, Nvidia, this is a,
spk_0 we can talk about the round tripping with the revenue where like,
spk_0 you know, they're investing in an open,
spk_0 100 billion in or open AI and then like 300 billion
spk_0 open AI is paying to Oracle and like the round tripping
spk_0 this revenue, right?
spk_0 And he's saying it's more,
spk_0 this is like N-ron, like red flag type of stuff.
spk_0 I'm like, dude, like,
spk_0 open AI has 800 million users and he's like,
spk_0 well, the $20 a month is never going to grow into the revenue that they,
spk_0 I'm like, dude, in startups, you go for the users
spk_0 and then you can turn on ads later,
spk_0 you can do whatever you want with the users later.
spk_0 It's not just going to be a $20 a month thing, right?
spk_0 And he's arguing with me back, I'm like,
spk_0 okay, I'll bet you $10,000, okay?
spk_0 I bet you open AI and Thropic cognition in the next five years.
spk_0 I'll, I'll even give you 10 years on it.
spk_0 Their valuation plus their rev,
spk_0 valuation or revenue is going to be higher, okay?
spk_0 And if you want to look at the Mag 7,
spk_0 he was using Nvidia.
spk_0 He's like, why do you think Warren Buffett doesn't use Nvidia?
spk_0 You talk about Warren Buffett all the time, right?
spk_0 I'm like, yeah, I'll tell you what,
spk_0 Warren Buffett doesn't invest in talk.
spk_0 Well, stocks, he's a tech stock.
spk_0 I'm like, some he does.
spk_0 Yeah, this is Apple.
spk_0 I think, sorry, I said, I said Warren Buffett tends to avoid tech.
spk_0 And so he does have Apple, he does have Google,
spk_0 but guess what?
spk_0 It's his lieutenants that put in that money.
spk_0 He has said in the circle of confidence
spk_0 that he doesn't touch that stuff, right?
spk_0 And, but you and I both understand technology.
spk_0 And we know how this stuff goes.
spk_0 Long run, long run.
spk_0 So I was like, look, okay, you can take Nvidia,
spk_0 you can take Microsoft, even take Amazon as well.
spk_0 You can take Google and I'm telling you,
spk_0 in the next five years, revenue,
spk_0 valuation will be up, okay?
spk_0 And I'll bet you 10, I'll bet you more than that.
spk_0 I'm near fiber 10.
spk_0 I can do five, I said five first.
spk_0 I said, I agree.
spk_0 I think within five years are all worth more.
spk_0 Yeah, but this is not financial advice from Eric.
spk_0 And I, this is just our own opinions.
spk_0 We're not financial experts are economists
spk_0 and you could lose money.
spk_0 But I agree with you.
spk_0 I think it's common on Enron is very non relatable
spk_0 to what's happening with like Nvidia investing.
spk_0 And Ron was taking revenue.
spk_0 And let's say the revenue was over three or four years.
spk_0 They're booking it all right now,
spk_0 which you're not supposed to do in accounting.
spk_0 If someone pays you over four years,
spk_0 you can't just count all the revenue today.
spk_0 Yep.
spk_0 And that's where Enron got into a big issue.
spk_0 If Nvidia is making money from selling GPUs
spk_0 and open AI is trying to build massive data centers
spk_0 and you know that company's growing in revenue,
spk_0 these companies have venture arms.
spk_0 Why can't they invest in them?
spk_0 It's like it's taking money off your balance sheet.
spk_0 Yep.
spk_0 Yes, they're spending some of that cash
spk_0 and investing it back into,
spk_0 but you end up becoming an owner in that organization
spk_0 that's growing very large.
spk_0 Yep.
spk_0 I look at open AI and Nvidia
spk_0 and a world where there wouldn't be a world
spk_0 where monopolies would be allowed.
spk_0 You would start seeing these companies
spk_0 gobble each other up because they're so dependent.
spk_0 Yep.
spk_0 And you would grow even faster.
spk_0 But we can't do that in today's world.
spk_0 You know what, Jensen said,
spk_0 so I was listening to a podcast
spk_0 where he was talking to Brad Gersner
spk_0 right, so he was doing an interview
spk_0 and then one of his partners was there too.
spk_0 And so they brought it up.
spk_0 It's like, what about this round tripping?
spk_0 He's like, dude,
spk_0 like I believe that open AI,
spk_0 Jensen saying this,
spk_0 that opening is going to be
spk_0 the next multi-trillion dollar company
spk_0 by generation.
spk_0 I can see that, right?
spk_0 And he's like, we regret not putting in more money
spk_0 because we were poor, right?
spk_0 Before everything took off, right?
spk_0 And now here's a chance for us to put in more money
spk_0 and we're going to put in more money.
spk_0 And that was his reasoning.
spk_0 And like, it actually goes to what you said.
spk_0 I'm sure you didn't listen to that podcast.
spk_0 That's just you, it's the same logic.
spk_0 It's the same logic.
spk_0
spk_0 It's like Google invested in Uber early on,
spk_0 right?
spk_0 Or not that early, but early enough.
spk_0 And Uber started using Google Maps, right?
spk_0 So what?
spk_0 Google's sending them money,
spk_0 then they're making money because they're using Google Maps.
spk_0 I don't know what the deal or the terms of the deal are for them to use it.
spk_0 You could say it's going in a roundabout way,
spk_0 but Uber's map technology sucked compared to Google's.
spk_0 They use Google's.
spk_0 It became a better product.
spk_0 Yeah, it's a win-win scenario for both of them.
spk_0 I look at this as just the kind of wrap it up.
spk_0 I think it's a look
spk_0 there's real revenue, there's real products here.
spk_0 And then I think if there's any investing less than not advice for you guys,
spk_0 it's warm buff at himself.
spk_0 Uncle Warm Buff has always said,
spk_0 you want to invest within your circle of competence.
spk_0 And the beauty with investing is you can wait to swing on all the pitches you want.
spk_0 And you can wait for the fat pitch.
spk_0 And then you can swing, right?
spk_0 And so, and he has said, like,
spk_0 tech is not my circle of competence.
spk_0 And so he doesn't bet there.
spk_0 And so, but when you know this area,
spk_0 you can afford to bet more.
spk_0 That's not financial advice, right?
spk_0 When you understand your niche, you can press hard.
spk_0 Yes.
spk_0 But no, yeah, and you're right.
spk_0 He doesn't not invest in tech.
spk_0 It's his team members that do.
spk_0 And it works out from because they understand it.
spk_0 And you and I are similar.
spk_0 We'll be investing what we understand.
spk_0 Whether that's right or wrong.
spk_0 Yeah.
spk_0 Well, I mean, you and I have been stupid with angel investments,
spk_0 but yeah, angel investing has worked out for me.
spk_0 It has.
spk_0 Yeah, it worked out really well.
spk_0 I would say I
spk_0 net net it's worked out, but I feel stupid.
spk_0 Because most of the bets don't work out.
spk_0 That's why I say it's stupid.
spk_0 Yeah.
spk_0 So I stopped doing angel investments.
spk_0 I don't know how many years ago, but it's been a while.
spk_0 And then I shifted to just being an LPN funds.
spk_0 So when I got started as an angel,
spk_0 companies have really raised more than 100 million in total.
spk_0 I'm not talking about one round.
spk_0 I'm talking about in total.
spk_0 And they would just go public if you,
spk_0 you know, you risk 10 to this long time.
spk_0 Yeah, one million in your series A,
spk_0 four or five, your series B,
spk_0 you know, and then you got to D.
spk_0 And then you've raised maybe 100 total.
spk_0 You go public.
spk_0 And the returns were actually really decent if you pick the right ones.
spk_0 The problem that I started facing towards a latter part of my angel investing
spk_0 quote unquote career, but it wasn't really a career more so hobby.
spk_0 Yeah, is I invested in quite a few companies.
spk_0 And I was one of the first checks.
spk_0 If not deep or I was in the first round.
spk_0 So I was, you know, one of the first checks.
spk_0 Right.
spk_0 If they raised a round of two, four,
spk_0 whatever million dollars or five million or a million bucks,
spk_0 I was participating in that round.
spk_0 I wouldn't take up the whole round, but I would write a check.
spk_0 And some of these companies started becoming worth two, three, four, five,
spk_0 six, seven billion, whatever over time.
spk_0 And they were growing.
spk_0 But the problem that I ended up facing as an investor is
spk_0 when they start raising rounds like 400, 500 million dollars,
spk_0 you started seeing things like liquidation preferences and all this kind of other stuff
spk_0 that makes it harder for you as an angel to get returned versus what I used to see before.
spk_0
spk_0 And people were starting to, they started to pay up because when you look at most financial investing,
spk_0 some of these ventrathons are starting to get 30, 40, 50 percent returns.
spk_0 There was a lot of other people who were like, well, we'll pay up for these.
spk_0 And we're okay with 20 percent returns.
spk_0 And some of the top tier ventrathons do 20 percent because they have so much money and
spk_0 so much capital is being deployed.
spk_0 Entrepreneurs are getting diluted.
spk_0 And that's fine.
spk_0 But there's also higher valuations.
spk_0 It's just the angels don't from what I've experienced.
spk_0 I'm not saying this is everyone.
spk_0 This is just what I experienced.
spk_0 My returns aren't as great as it used to be 15, 20 years ago.
spk_0 Maybe I'm just picking the wrong companies, but people look at like anthropic.
spk_0 And I know someone that behind the scenes deals and people like, oh,
spk_0 look at this.
spk_0 They're worth 150 billion.
spk_0 Look at the early angels.
spk_0 They made a killing.
spk_0 No, they're not getting these crazy valuations.
spk_0 What's, um, call it, uh, liquidation preferences and guarantees on how much return they get,
spk_0 which really does screw up the returns for the original angels.
spk_0 And I know some of the angels or earlier investors on some of these deals.
spk_0 And I've talked to them about their returns on some of these A companies like,
spk_0 this not as good.
spk_0 I'm like, some of these late sage companies or late sage rounds.
spk_0 These companies that are putting in, you know, five, 10, 15 billion dollars.
spk_0 They're not just being like, cool, we'll do it at 100 plus billion valuation.
spk_0 Whatever happens happens.
spk_0 They have terms in there that really protect their downside,
spk_0 which hurts the returns for their earlier angels.
spk_0 So now I just stick with being an LP and the funds.
spk_0 Let those, those guys do it and grind it out.
spk_0 And if I get my 20% returns, great.
spk_0 If it's 30, great, but the bigger the funds that I'm in,
spk_0 the harder it is for them to produce 30, 40%.
spk_0 The smaller the funds, like call it sub hundred million,
spk_0 they have a higher chance.
spk_0 But when some of these funds have like seven billion, 10 billion,
spk_0 just for one fund, it's hard for them to produce 30, 40, 50% returns.
spk_0 They call that the law of big numbers.
spk_0 But here's what I'll say.
spk_0 So yes, as angel investing,
spk_0 like my very first one was a 50-excer.
spk_0 The very first one, right?
spk_0 But here's the thing.
spk_0 A private equity guy recently tweeted this, right?
spk_0 And I was like, oh, this makes a lot of sense.
spk_0 And you and I have talked about this.
spk_0 It's like, dude, if you put money into a fund or whatever,
spk_0 you go into private equity or like,
spk_0 and you sold the business before,
spk_0 you will never have the same returns you had with your business.
spk_0 And that's what we learn.
spk_0 Our business is the best ROI machine by far.
spk_0 And I think at least for me, I got distracted
spk_0 by all these things in the past, right?
spk_0 But then you start to look at it.
spk_0 I think a lot of people, when they sell their company too,
spk_0 they expect to have the same returns
spk_0 with, you know, by du-pointing into these funds and all that.
spk_0 It's just not the reality.
spk_0 So it's not.
spk_0 And like, dude, I've invested like,
spk_0 there was one company that put a hundred grand in.
spk_0 I think it returned six or eight-ish million.
spk_0 Six and change or eight and change to me.
spk_0 Wow.
spk_0 So it's like, I've had some good wins on it.
spk_0 And they make up for all my other investments.
spk_0 But the problem is, is like, it's not just picking.
spk_0 I've picked companies that are worth four, five,
spk_0 10-ish billion dollars.
spk_0 And the returns just aren't the same
spk_0 when you're the first check compared to what it used to be.
spk_0 Because now they just raised so much and they stay private forever.
spk_0 Mm-hmm.
spk_0 Yep.
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spk_0 So there's two things, and they're both similar topics on here.
spk_0 So there was a post on Reddit.
spk_0 It says,
spk_0 Disguised promotion on Reddit for the sake of GEO has to stop.
spk_0 And I saw it on Reddit, and funny enough,
spk_0 I also saw that on Tim Solo's account,
spk_0 the HREF's CMO.
spk_0 And I was cracking up when he took a screenshot of it and posted it,
spk_0 and he said, he's like, no, no, no, this is just starting.
spk_0 And I was cracking up because I like this is so true.
spk_0 Like if these LLMs are going to cite Reddit all the time,
spk_0 what the heck do you think marketers are going to do?
spk_0 They're going to spam the crap out of Reddit.
spk_0 And I'm not saying they should.
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spk_0 This is a game for every channel.
spk_0 Yeah, this is a game for every channel.
spk_0 This is what all marketers do.
spk_0 And I'm using spam really loosely,
spk_0 but on Reddit, people will really try to spam.
spk_0 It's going to make the community crappier.
spk_0 I'm not saying you should.
spk_0 I think it's short-sighted.
spk_0 And I think it's a waste of time of doing that.
spk_0 But Reddit, and I think this was very well-do.
spk_0 Reddit socks things 12% as Chad GBG references to his content,
spk_0 plunges from 10% to 2% in September.
spk_0 And there's a headline I had originally.
spk_0 Reddit drops $5.3 billion because of an SEO report.
spk_0 I believe this from Yahoo, I saw it from Yahoo Finance.
spk_0 I don't know where it first came out.
spk_0 So they pulled this.
spk_0 So there's a got there's a software called prompt watch.
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spk_0 And then it got cited by all these news sources.
spk_0 Well, no, I think that was great because the problem,
spk_0 I'm not talking about the stock dropping.
spk_0 I don't want anyone to lose money.
spk_0 But when you look at Reddit and the citations that are happening on Google
spk_0 and on Chad GBG, it's insane in a bad way.
spk_0 They're referencing it too much and the quality is really low.
spk_0 I get Google has a deal with Reddit for data.
spk_0 And I get that Sam Altman owns a percentage of Reddit shares,
spk_0 whether it's through his fund or indirectly however it was.
spk_0 And sure he benefits from it and they made an announcement before Reddit went public.
spk_0 Yeah.
spk_0 But for me, the quality of Reddit information.
spk_0 Yeah.
spk_0 Wasn't it wasn't the best to begin.
spk_0 No, and they were just citing it like crazy on Chad GBT.
spk_0 And it has nothing to do with Reddit.
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spk_0 Nor do I care to do that because I didn't believe for the longest time
spk_0 that they're going to continually site Reddit all the time because of quality.
spk_0 And the same goes with Chad GBT.
spk_0 Dude, you know how many people I know are just guest posting on junk websites.
spk_0 And they're doing comparison tables with like structured data comparing their SaaS product
spk_0 with other people.
spk_0 This is a little different than the early days of SEO.
spk_0 Yes.
spk_0 And people like, why aren't you doing that like crazy?
spk_0 It works so well for Chad GBT.
spk_0 I'm like, no, no, no, no, no.
spk_0 I've seen this show before.
spk_0 It works well right now.
spk_0 Eventually, they'll realize this is making Chad GBT data more crap.
spk_0 And they'll filter out crappy websites.
spk_0 Yeah.
spk_0 And it won't work the same.
spk_0 For sure, at best, they will only filter at worst.
spk_0 They'll start to ban people.
spk_0 Yeah.
spk_0 Yeah.
spk_0 They'll start going through.
spk_0 Sorry for the.
spk_0 Yeah, it's okay.
spk_0 No, it's okay.
spk_0 No, it's not.
spk_0 You're just taking a couple of.
spk_0 Yeah.
spk_0 You know what's interesting as you drink, we have a mutual friend that's here in the Beverly Hills area.
spk_0 So I saw him at a YPO event recently.
spk_0 He's like, and he was kind of talking down to me a little bit.
spk_0 He's like, oh, you got to go on Reddit.
spk_0 Yeah, I'm all in on Reddit.
spk_0 I'm going to go hard on this talk.
spk_0 And I was kind of making the same points that we're making.
spk_0 Is he the same one who got us to both into YPO?
spk_0 Yeah.
spk_0 Yeah.
spk_0 And then he was like, also like dismissing me as if I don't know anything I'm talking about.
spk_0 Right?
spk_0 He's like, no, no, no, trust me.
spk_0 Trust me.
spk_0 This Sam Altman owns this.
spk_0 No, no, no, no, no, no.
spk_0 I'm like, yeah, man.
spk_0 Like, it doesn't help if we spam the internet.
spk_0 We add work crap to it.
spk_0 Like we've seen this with SEO.
spk_0 Yeah.
spk_0 Yeah.
spk_0 Sam Altman owns Porsche Reddit.
spk_0 Uh-huh.
spk_0 Let's talk once he sells all his Reddit shares.
spk_0 Yeah.
spk_0 Right?
spk_0 If he already did, I don't know if he's a long-term holder.
spk_0 But eventually, he'll look at as, oh, either I sold all my Reddit shares.
spk_0 So I don't care anymore.
spk_0 Or B, yes, I'll hold shares in my shares or worth $50 million.
spk_0 But man, my chat GBT experience is becoming worse.
spk_0 And that could potentially cost me $5, $10 billion in net worth.
spk_0 So, uh, yeah, it's all right.
spk_0 If you can use the Reddit shares.
spk_0 Yeah, I'll lose them.
spk_0 My Reddit shares are dump them.
spk_0 And then, you know, that's what a logical person does.
spk_0 Yep.
spk_0 By the way, I mean, kind of related to this one.
spk_0 Oh, so I have this topic here on why SEO attribution is dead.
spk_0 So, um, but I can't log into my LinkedIn right now.
spk_0 So you can pick another topic.
spk_0 That's okay.
spk_0 We can just go with SEO attribution is dead and why we agree with that.
spk_0 I don't know what you're referencing there.
spk_0 But I believe SEO attribution is dead for two reasons.
spk_0 I don't have the chart in front of me.
spk_0 But when we look at where people learn from a company versus where they buy,
spk_0 SEO is a big chunk of where they learn about a company.
spk_0 But it doesn't pass as a last conversion source.
spk_0 A lot of times from where they convert to SEO has evolved into optimizing for,
spk_0 you know, AI overviews, these alum platforms like, uh, chat GBT.
spk_0 And you're getting the brand mentions.
spk_0 But it's really screwing up, uh, your conversion tracking because a lot of people learning
spk_0 about a company through these LLMs, assuming you can get your brand sided more.
spk_0 But the conversion source isn't always where they first found you.
spk_0 So you got to do, you know, multitouch attribution.
spk_0 Plus it's not all trackable when someone sees your brand.
spk_0 They don't necessarily convert right away or even click right away,
spk_0 but they come back.
spk_0 And I think attribution not just for SEO, but for SEO, organic social.
spk_0 A lot of these channels are dead.
spk_0 And the attribution for paid, what we see is it skews more
spk_0 where the platforms try to take credit for the conversions.
spk_0 When I'm not saying they didn't help us this, but they weren't the only touch point.
spk_0 Remember what was said a long time ago with advertising?
spk_0 It's like, you know, 50, 50% of my marketing on the dollar works.
spk_0 I just don't know which 50%.
spk_0 And this is where we're going again.
spk_0 Because back in the day, when we first started doing this,
spk_0 it was called like 15 for you, like maybe a little longer, 20 years ago or whatever,
spk_0 you had attribution.
spk_0 You can see keyword attribution.
spk_0 You see this.
spk_0 Everything was very much less touch.
spk_0 But you can't look at it that way.
spk_0 And this post actually came from our mutual friend, Guy Tano.
spk_0 And like, I traffic go to your homepage.
spk_0 You're pricing your solutions.
spk_0 Like, you don't know what's actually driving.
spk_0 Like, sure, you're good.
spk_0 We're not saying don't look at your analytics,
spk_0 but it's no longer gospel.
spk_0 Like I think you and I in a very beginning, we looked at it as gospel.
spk_0 It's not like that aim.
spk_0 Once a lot of time, you checked your analytics.
spk_0 I actually checked it like earlier this week,
spk_0 but I was looking at, I was looking at AI traffic data.
spk_0 That's what I was looking at.
spk_0 I don't think I've logged into my Google Analytics for probably six months.
spk_0 And Neil used to look at it every day.
spk_0 Whenever I went to Neil's house, I'd let it, Google Analytics was pulled up.
spk_0 I used to look at like five, six times a day.
spk_0 Yep.
spk_0 But on the flip side, I do have a decent size team at this point.
spk_0 I don't know how many people are marking,
spk_0 but we have over a thousand plus people.
spk_0 So there's so many people that log in and send me reports.
spk_0 I don't need to log in.
spk_0 So that's one.
spk_0 So it's very Neil gets a bunch of text messages and different text groups.
spk_0 That's your name.
spk_0 And they break down all the data for me.
spk_0 And some of it comes from Google Analytics.
spk_0 Some of it comes from our own homegrown solution.
spk_0 Some of it comes from things like recurly,
spk_0 strive, you get the point.
spk_0 But I do look at data probably two to three times a day.
spk_0 It's just I don't have to log into Google Analytics.
spk_0 And but I agree with you on attribution.
spk_0 I think there's been a big issue for attribution for a long time.
spk_0 Eric had this headline on his single grain home page for a long time.
spk_0 I'm going to butcher it, but you know what I'm talking about.
spk_0 You actually you better think it's 78% of CEOs don't believe that marketers
spk_0 measure ROI.
spk_0 We do.
spk_0 Yes.
spk_0 It was something like that.
spk_0 And I think it's totally spot on in which most marketers never really measured
spk_0 attribution and executives never really believed in it.
spk_0 But back in the day, it was easier to measure than it is now.
spk_0 I think it's just we have more tools to help us,
spk_0 but it's more complex because data is in so many different areas.
spk_0 And all the sources don't give you the data.
spk_0 And then the second problem is is because of that,
spk_0 you don't really know what's fully causing the conversions.
spk_0 So you can show reports.
spk_0 It's just making marketer.
spk_0 It's making a marketer job more charter in today's world.
spk_0 Yeah.
spk_0 All right.
spk_0 So that's it for today guys.
spk_0 And we'll see you tomorrow.