What the AI Boom Looks Like From Inside Cisco with Sam Badri | The Real Eisman Playbook Ep 77
Cisco’s Sam Badri says roughly 90% of AI users remain at basic prompting, with few advancing to skills files or AI agents.
Monday, September 28, 2026
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@ShmuelLon Good. That was my intention. It was less about the merits of $EVC in the future and more about recognizing that 1) we have to think about growth properly; and 2)we have to guard against thesis drift.
junkbondinvestor on X
Workday employees learning their new owner's first workstream will be headcount reduction $WDAY https://t.co/AIvTDIXGdo
DOMO Capital Management, LLC on X
Agreed, this was PCIs largest market.... this is an enormous win for $PBI ... I think PCI was might be the one's that were targeting Pitneys customers. Definitely didn't work out the way they thought it would. PBI should get a lot of customers back. PCI handles over a billion pieces nationally...
Lee Roach on X
@Uzocapital Thoughts on $TTD here?
Broken Moats on X
who is financing an LBO of $WDAY at this valuation....one of the more baffling capital allocation decisions across the spectrum I could imagine. Seems like a very levered play to try and change marks on private credit and then move to open refinancing or the IPO market to dump all the bags and use "WDAY" as mark/proof. Whole thing is sketchy.....
kab60 on X
If PE wants to own SW, go get $FIS. Sticky as fuck, could cut employees in half and shit is already levered to the tits and ready to go!!
kab60 on X
Not saying I told you so, but I did tell you this shitco was a better shitco than $FISV (ignore my posts about $FOUR, that's just a temporary 'mark to market'/'ya, so that's just your opinion man, it really ties the portfolio together'
kab60 on X
Mkt feeling frothy, we're approaching 6xFCF $gpn https://t.co/v8JZBAHFfU
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New Buy : Honeywell Aerospace $HONA
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