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Key Takeaways Dual AI focus – Gaxos.ai builds AI-powered tools for game developers (via Unity integrations) and AI-driven health services under its RNK Health brand. First signs of commercial traction – After years of development, the company reported ~$194k in H1 2025 revenue, mainly from wellness pilot programs.

Key Takeaways Spotify is wisely focusing on long-term objectives over short-term profitability. Leverage will shift from labels (suppliers) to Spotify (the aggregator) as scale continues to grow.

1. Social Media Monopoly Meta controls the two biggest social media platforms on Earth — and the third is owned by Meta too.

1. Digital Ad Dominance That Prints Cash Alphabet is the undisputed heavyweight champion of digital advertising — responsible for nearly 30% of global ad spend.

Travelzoo's recent drop due to lower profit margins (based on higher customer acquisition costs) is fundamentally misunderstood. Travelzoo acquires a new customer for $38, and that customer pays $40 for membership, leading to an immediate net gain of $2.

GOOGL is a stock that I am very excited about for multiple reasons. For this I will be talking and touching up on a lot of things that were released today in their Q2 2025 Earnings Report.

Key Takeaways Alphabet has challenges in its search business unaccounted for by investors Alphabet’s best bet is to focus on the Cloud, but it’s an uphill battle AI will contribute to revenue growth, but profitability may come later Cloud and AI industries to grow, but analysts may have extrapolated too much Catalysts Company Catalysts AI Moat Lies In Proprietary Data Not Models A leaked Google internal memo outlines some controversial thinking inside the company. The anonymous employee argues that smaller peers are rapidly producing Large Language Models (LLM) models that can yield comparable results to Bard and GPT-4, with the added benefit of being cheaper to produce.

Key Takeaways Google’s dominance in search, and digital advertising industry growth will remain in tact. Cloud computing trends will support Google Cloud revenue growth Alphabet may implement AI slightly slower, but won’t fall behind Current estimates on costs per generative AI query are prohibitive to profitability Until processing power improves and makes generative AI cheaper, Google is unlikely to lose much market share.

Key Takeaways Netflix ad-supported plans will drive new revenue Revenue per user will decrease in short term from ad plans, but increase longer term Margins will continue to improve as costs grow slower than revenue (operating leverage) User growth expected from password sharing crackdown I believe these 3 catalysts will result in $52bn in revenue and $12.5bn profit by 2028 Catalysts Industry Catalysts There is Room For More Than One Streaming Platform The video streaming industry has become very competitive, and the market has been hyper focused on the question of “who will win the streaming war.” I don’t think this is a winner takes all situation, and there is room for a handful of platforms. There are pros and cons to each platform and many households end up subscribing to two or three platforms.