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A Couple of Talking Heads on GenAI, Crypto & The State of Fintech with Trevor Marshall

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4.6757 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Dan Nathan is joined by Trevor Marshall, CTO at Current to discuss recent trends in technology and finance. The episode covers the intricacies of generative AI, including market dynamics, Nvidia's large customer concentration, and the impact of rising rates in Japan on tech stocks and crypto. Trevor also shares insights on using machine learning in FinTech, particularly for customer service and fraud prevention, and the evolution of AI applications in consumer technology with references to Apple and Google’s advancements. Additionally, the discussion touches on the challenges faced by SaaS companies and potential shifts towards enterprise applications of AI. The episode also explores the current state and future of FinTech, emphasizing innovations like earned wage access and the effects of high rate environments on consumer credit. Article On Our Radar As Regulators Close In, Nvidia Scrambles for a Response (NYT) A Reality Check on AI With Chevron’s CIO (The Information) Klarna Weighs Secondary Share Sale Ahead of IPO (The Information) The AI summer (Ben Evans) — View our show notes here Learn more about Current: current.com Listen to 'Strategic Alternatives': https://www.rbccm.com/en/gib/ma-inflection-points Email us at [email protected] with any feedback, suggestions, or questions for us to answer on the pod and follow us @OkayComputerPod. We’re on social: Follow @dee_bosa on Twitter Follow @GuyAdami on Twitter Follow us on Instagram @RiskReversalMedia Subscribe to our YouTube page

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0:00.0

Welcome to OK Computer. I am Dan Nathan. I am joined, I say this every time, by my landlord. This would be Trevor Marshall. He is the co-founder and CTO of Current. Welcome back, Trevor. Thank you. You and I, again, we have so much to talk about. I love having a CTO in my presence here because I got, listen, you've forgotten more about tech than I may

0:23.3

ever know, but through the lens of the public markets, you know, I think about these things a lot.

0:28.3

I think about the interrelation. I think about how investors perceive it on a real-time basis and then really

0:34.0

how they think about it going forward, what's going to play out and the like. So you and I are

0:37.3

going to spend a bunch of time on generative AI and what's going on right now.

0:41.1

It seems like there's a slight disconnect in the public markets at this moment.

0:45.4

And maybe I keep seeing headlines about valuations in the private markets skipping up.

0:49.8

I want to hear what's going on in FinTech, but also maybe how you guys are thinking about generative

0:55.2

AI. You and I've had that conversation a few times. And here's one for OK computer listeners.

1:00.0

We're going to go over the yen carry trade. And my main man is going to break it down for us because

1:04.7

in his past life, he was an FX trader at a large bank. So we're going to do that. So we got a lot to cover here. Let's start with Gen. A.I. So what's happened in the last, let's call it, month or so, we just got done with

1:16.3

Q2 earnings season. We have not gotten to Nvidia's earnings, but we've gotten to many of their

1:22.0

customers. So Nvidia reports, I think, on August 28th, and everybody's waiting for that because

1:26.6

40%, nearly 50% of their sales come from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and meta.

1:32.5

So large customer concentration. We know that there's a lot of news in Invidia right now. There's some government

1:38.4

investigations of monopolistic practices. They just pushed out their next iteration of their high-end GPU.

1:45.0

That would be Blackwell.

1:46.0

So let's talk about what's going on because these stocks have been in a little bit of a down draft.

1:51.0

At one point yesterday, okay, that was Monday, August 5th.

1:55.0

Invidia just got killed.

1:57.0

It was down 14% of the opening.

1:59.0

Now, you look at the stock market a little bit. You recognize

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