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NVIDIA Is Printing $1 Billion a Day

2026-08-28 · 12 company · 6 thematic

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Co-host of Limitless Podcast (episode 210), a 4x/week show covering the frontier of AI and technology with a newsletter reaching hundreds of thousands. The podcast recently spun out as an independent entity.

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“Nvidia's quarterly revenue now exceeds the annual revenue of roughly $480 of the S&P 500. Nvidia is printing about just over a billion dollars in cash every single day that it operates. They're guiding now for 70% year-over-year growth in…”

—josh kale

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