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🤖 Own AWS, Azure and GCP and nothing else — the clouds capture the AI application dollars

The one thing all four voices agree on: a synthetic index of AWS, Azure and GCP is the only holding you need for the next five years, because application dollars migrate to the cloud layer as custom AI software replaces packaged software. The corollary Friedberg draws is that you should accept the junk attached to each parent (Amazon retail, Microsoft's application layer, Google search) because whichever cloud pulls ahead more than covers the other two's declines, and the multiples on all three are not demanding. Friedberg's CIO channel check is that every Fortune 50 buyer is deliberately multi-cloud, so no single cloud gets standardized out of the market.

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Friedberg tech w=1.08 · n=65 · E232 (2025-06-21) · explicit_prediction · strength 3 ▶ 1:37:03 SUPPORT

“So why don't you put up with the shitty part of the rest of their businesses and just own all three and that's it, call it a day. Because you've got to assume that if one of them wins over the other two or accelerates ahead of the other two, it's going to more than make up for the losses that the other two might experience in their other businesses. The multiples aren't crazy on those three companies, by the way.”

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each voice's total force on the score — supports and opposes from every mention, weighted exactly as the replay applied them · share = % of all mention-driven movement

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Thomas Laffont w=1.17 regular guest ×1.0

1 scoring event · 77% of moves

+49.0 → net +49.0

Friedberg w=1.08

1 scoring event · 23% of moves

+14.8 → net +14.8

⏳ decay drained -43.2 over the idea's life — that's time passing, attributed to no one

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