Apoorv Agrawal
Partner, Altimeter Capital · Guest interviewer, Bg2 Pod
“On the semi side of things, assuming that is just 50% of the CapEx, you're spending about half a trillion on CapEx. And then you've got to earn about a trillion dollars of AI revenue for all of this capex to be worth it. And just to put this in context, the entirety of the software industry earns about $400 billion of revenue. This seems like a physics problem at this point. How do you think this plays out?”
“The number one shift is this move from if then else statements to a more generative solution that figures out the solution. And so you're trading breadth for maybe determinism. That seems to be the difference.”
“Last winter we had obviously what was called Code Red. Google had a great model. There was a lot of talk about it. Marc Benioff switching very vocally to Gemini and us delaying ads and health agents and shopping, basically hit pause on everything, making ChatGPT better.”
Apoorv Agrawal
One-line summary: Altimeter Capital partner; guest interviewer on the Bg2 Pod (Brad Gerstner + Bill Gurley's podcast). Tracked here for his interviewer-side framings on AI capex / revenue math and enterprise AI dynamics. Speaker-mapping note: AssemblyAI mis-attributed his voice as 'Brad Gerstner' in two Bg2 sources because Brad was passed as the host hint; the wiki attributes the quotes to Apoorv per the show notes' identification of the actual interviewer.
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"On the semi side of things, assuming that is just 50% of the CapEx, you're spending about half a trillion on CapEx. And then you've got to earn about a trillion dollars of AI revenue for all of this capex to be worth it. And just to put this in context, the entirety of the software industry earns about $400 billion of revenue. This seems like a physics problem at this point. How do you think this plays out?" — 2025-12-23-bg2-databricks-glean-enterprise-ai (2025-12-23)
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On agi-timeline-decade-of-agents:
"The number one shift is this move from if then else statements to a more generative solution that figures out the solution. And so you're trading breadth for maybe determinism. That seems to be the difference." — 2025-12-23-bg2-databricks-glean-enterprise-ai (2025-12-23)
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On chatgpt-super-assistant-vision:
"Last winter we had obviously what was called Code Red. Google had a great model. There was a lot of talk about it. Marc Benioff switching very vocally to Gemini and us delaying ads and health agents and shopping, basically hit pause on everything, making ChatGPT better." — 2026-03-15-bg2-chatgpt-super-assistant-era (2026-03-15)
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