Connect your Claude, Codex or OpenClaw for full transcripts on millions of podcasts. Two week free trial, cancel anytime.

Start free trial →
EE Ed Elson Ed Elson Co-Host of Prof G Markets and author of Simply Put.

“The most important numbers in the filing came at the end of the document, where we learned that Anthropic has signed more than $800 billion in future compute commitments, none of which are reflected in the current income statement, but all of which eventually will be.”

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · Tech Strategy & Big Tech · October 2026

“The most important numbers in the filing came at the end of the document, where we learned that Anthropic has signed more than $800 billion in future compute commitments, none of which are reflected in the current income statement, but all of which eventually will be.” — Ed Elson, The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

Context

A replayed clip from the Prof G Markets show, after a summary of Anthropic's S-1 revenue and operating loss. The argument is that the income statement hides the real story, which sits in the compute commitments at the back of the filing.

Transcript

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway Around 19:14 into the episode
George Hahn

…supply side. We need federal legislation and local legislation that says: look, you cannot access federal funds if you do not, or if you create a NIMBY-like situation where it's very hard to issue permits. We need to provide tax credits to developers such that they have greater incentives to build.

Speaker 3

…day of trading. The filing shows $16.3 billion in revenue for the first half of the year, up from $1.2 billion a year earlier, and an operating loss that narrowed to around $700 million. Ed ended Wednesday's Prof G markets by looking past the income statement to the numbers on the very back of the

Speaker 2

filing. The most important numbers in the filing came at the end of the document, where we learned that Anthropic has signed more than $800 billion in future compute commitments, none of which are reflected in the current income statement, but all of which eventually will be. That includes an $110 billion contract with Amazon, a $115 billion contract with Google, a $161 billion contract

George Hahn

with Broadcom. What it doesn't include, however, are the billions of dollars in capital expenditures, which they are about to register probably to build out their own compute. That's not something I believe because I had a hunch about it. I believe that because they literally told us that in the…

Speaker 2

we must treat Anthropic with the appropriate level of caution. It's still a highly risky venture bet. Things could still go spectacularly wrong. What it certainly isn't is a proven safe corporate investment, something that its potentially $2 trillion valuation might suggest. In sum, not much has…

Speaker 3

But I think, look, to me, the bigger, bigger, bigger question is: it just seems that there are no moats around this business. I mean, if it's the case that they actually did cut prices by 50%, that would reinforce. The concept that there are no modes and that the only way you're going to gain share…

Speaker names come from our own diarization. The position is estimated from where the line sits in the episode.

More from The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway