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Start free trial →The Pomp Podcast · October 2026
Responding to a story about a young hire who complained that everyone in their department was using AI, he gives his view on who loses out by avoiding the technology.
hear that, William? Look at
this guy. Jordy asked him to eat live on the podcast.
…I mean, I know people now in my life that have used Grockbot to do some things I told them they could do. I didn't know you could use Grockbot without paying a lot of money for a month because I already do. I don't keep up on what's free, like what becomes free, but the models keep getting better and the free tier keeps getting better and better and better to where you can do all these things. Where it hurts is for younger people that are not embracing it, that are not using it, they are going to have trouble getting jobs. It's just a reality. There's no way that you can compete in today's workforce without being efficient. And if you think the company that's hiring you, like, oh, great, I found a company that isn't using AI that isn't forcing me to, that company is not going to be in business very long. And that process is going to start. In fact, I'll go back to the triple C. Triple C. So companies that are junkie junk junk, their cost of borrowing is now 16%. Now, some of that is the rise in 10 year rates, but a lot of that is the spread widening. 16%. That's how if you're going to borrow money at 16%, you need…
All right. I joked in the beginning that your Halloween costume should be Mr. Eli Lilly himself. I don't think there's actually an Eli Lilly, but all-time highs, up 10% in two days. You sat in this seat a couple months ago and said that one of your big bets for the AI trade was Eli Lilly. You've…
First of all, the numbers are staggering. I challenge anyone to just go into an LLM and say, hey, can you give me the earnings details from this quarter for Eli Lilly? I mean, you're talking about revenue growth, revenue. So, to give people an idea, like good revenue, the SP 500 right now revenue…
$24.4 billion. Let me just read some of these notes. These are so crazy. So Eli Lilly reported revenue of $24.4 billion, up 39%. The expectation was $22.6 billion. So they outperformed expectations by $2 billion, almost 10%. Their volume grew 53%. Prices are down 15%. Gross margin was 83%. Non-GAP…