▶ 49:40 · $PANW · Arora: AI weaponization forces platform consolidation; zero marginal cost inspection via small models is the economic moat

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Yapping in Neuralese, Jimmy Iovine in the Ultradome, Nikesh Joins, GoPro v2

2026-09-02 · 8 company · 6 thematic

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speakers

nikesh arora

Chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks. Former president of SoftBank and former chief business officer of Google.

phil johnson

CEO of Lumen Orbit, a space-based data center company that launched the first H100 GPU to orbit (StarCloud-1) in late 2025; raised $250M Series A extension at $2.3B valuation with Nvidia and Cisco participation; booking launches for 2025-2026 to deploy orbital inference capacity for government and commercial SAR imagery.

john coogan

Co-host of TBPN, a live technology and business show focused on startups, venture capital and Silicon Valley.

kurt tenbound

Leads Blue Owl's AI compute infrastructure investing practice; oversees 100+ data centers and 10GW of capacity across data center equity, direct lending, and leasing strategies focused on non-investment-grade GPU financing for AI natives.

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“Every day we inspect 180 terabytes of data... you stick anything against it which has got a sort of a token based economics against on it... That's going to add up a lot of compute. That is why what we do today is we write machine learning…”

—nikesh arora

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