A brisk, useful look at the infrastructure bets forming around AI data centers.
AI data centers give this episode a clear market frame, and its strongest moments sit in the hardware and power demands behind Nvidia's growth.

Growth stocks, argued in real time.
The 7investing Podcast follows Simon Erickson and recurring collaborators through fast-moving stock theses, from Apple margins to AI data-center hardware. It favors concrete business cases, financial metrics, and investor implications over broad market chatter.
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The 7investing Podcast is a stock-analysis show with a clear appetite for growth, innovation, and investable change. Its center of gravity is the live 7 Investing format, where Simon Erickson works through market ideas with enough structure to form a thesis and enough looseness to let the thinking happen out loud. The show often starts with a company or technology that is already in the news. Then it asks the practical investor question. Who makes money from this? Apple coverage becomes a discussion of revenue growth, gross margin, operating cash flow, and shareholder returns. The Hims & Hers and Novo Nordisk feud becomes a way to think about GLP-1 demand, drug distribution, and a very large weight-loss market. AI episodes look past the obvious platform names and toward the hardware and energy systems that make larger data centers possible. Optical signal transmission, laser transceivers, modular fuel-cell power, and NVIDIA partner ecosystems all become part of the same investing map. The MIT breakthrough technology series gives the show its broadest canvas. It moves from nuclear energy and batteries to embryo scoring, quantum computing, and health-care applications, always circling back to public companies and business implications. The tone is casual, but the habits are analytical. Numbers get repeated because they matter. Market cap, basis points, revenue, buybacks, and valuation are used as anchors rather than decoration. Episodes can be interrupted by substantial sponsor reads, which gives the feed a commercial live-stream texture. Once the discussion resumes, the show usually finds its way back to the core question. Some episodes are company watch lists. Others are interviews, such as the options strategy conversation with Jeff Fisher. The best moments come when technical subjects are translated into plain-English analogies without sanding off the investing complexity. This is a show for listeners who like emerging technology but still want the balance sheet, competitive position, and investor takeaway attached. It is opinionated, energetic, and comfortable being early. It also leaves room for skepticism, especially around SPACs, controversial biotech applications, and themes that need more research before becoming a recommendation.
Made for: For self-directed investors who follow individual stocks, emerging technology, and long-term growth themes. It works best for listeners already comfortable with market language and company-level analysis.
What sets it apart: The show connects futuristic themes to investable business mechanics, moving quickly from science or product news into margins, market size, valuation, and shareholder impact. Its live, conversational style makes the analysis feel less scripted than many stock-picking shows.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
The 7investing Podcast connects emerging technologies to public companies while keeping valuation, execution, and regulatory uncertainty in view.
Simon Erickson treats emerging technology as an investing problem to be worked through, not merely admired. The 7investing Podcast moves between company-level analysis and larger shifts shaping public markets, with recurring attention to AI infrastructure, semiconductors, energy…
Nvidia gets the spotlight; Simon Erickson gets you curious about the lasers and power behind it.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A brisk, useful look at the infrastructure bets forming around AI data centers.
AI data centers give this episode a clear market frame, and its strongest moments sit in the hardware and power demands behind Nvidia's growth.
A brisk look at how optical infrastructure may shape the investment case around larger AI data centers.
This 7 Investing episode turns MIT Tech Review's 10 Breakthrough Technologies for 2026 into a practical investor screen, with scientific innovation valued for its path to commercial scale and a stock-market thesis.
A market-focused look at emerging tech, from storage economics to the ethics of embryo scoring.
MIT Tech Review's annual 10 Breakthrough Technologies list becomes a market-minded conversation, as Simon Erickson of 7investing looks at which scientific advances could turn into growth investments. The most grounded stretch is on energy storage.
A measured watch-list review pairing Micron's scale with Inflection's more uncertain SPAC-backed debut.
7 Investing's March 9 livestream puts Micron and Inflection on the same watch list, using the gap between them to give the segment its shape. Micron is framed as a company worth nearly $500 billion, while Inflection is treated as a far smaller name, worth about $2 billion, that…
A numbers-led Apple discussion centered on quarterly performance, margins, cash flow, and buybacks.
Apple receives a clear investor-focused review in this 7investing discussion, with the company framed through scale, profitability, and recent quarterly performance.
A patient look at acquisition platforms, software pressure, and industrial opportunities
The conversation moves from software stocks and the SaaSpocalypse into industrial and manufacturing opportunities, with John Rotonti and Simon Erickson using Constellation Software as the clearest anchor.
A brisk investor-focused look at crypto's move into equities, retirement money, regulation, payments, and public companies.
Crypto's push into public markets sits at the center of this PlayNext episode, as 7 Investing founder Simon Erickson talks with CryptoEQ founder and CEO Spencer Randall about the companies working across equities, digital assets, and payments.


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Overnight markets, explained before the day moves.

Gold-first macro with sharp political teeth.

Mining markets without the varnish.
Software and industrial opportunity sit at the center of this discussion.
Simon Erickson opens 7 Investing's inaugural show of 2026 with Spencer Randall, founder and CEO of CryptoEQ.
Simon Erickson interviews MrNotAdvice about the bull and bear cases for Enovix stock.
Simon Erickson introduces a live stream episode focused on AI sensors and autonomous robots, featuring guest Emmet Savage.
Simon Erickson interviews Jeff Fischer about using options as a complement to long-term stock investing, focusing on advanced strategies beyond basics.
Simon Erickson and Heather Horton explain why Broadcom (AVGO) has been 7investing's number one Best Buy for three consecutive months.
The main thesis lands on data centers, once the sponsor block is out of the way.
Simon Erickson and Heather Horton use MIT Technology Review's 2026 breakthrough-tech list to narrow in on Broadcom, Lumentum, and NuScale Power as investable names.
Simon Erickson opens 7investing Live as part two of a three-part series on MIT Technology Review's 2026 Breakthrough Technologies, ranked by which ideas look most investable over three to five years.
Simon Erickson discusses the feud between Novo Nordisk and Hims & Hers in the GLP-1 market and its implications for investors.
Simon Erickson and Heather Horton introduce a live stream about MIT's 10 Breakthrough Technologies for 2026 and their investment opportunities.
The 7investing Live hosts analyze Apple's announcement of the $600 MacBook Neo and iPad Air, positioned as roughly half the price of the standard MacBook Air, alongside the $600 iPhone 17e with doubled memory.
Simon Erickson and Heather Horton review two 7investing watch-list stocks: Micron, whose gross margin jumped 16 percentage points to 57% on $13.6 billion in quarterly revenue driven by high-bandwidth memory demand, and Inflection, a $2 billion quantum computing company that recently went public via SPAC.
Simon Erickson interviews Jeff Fischer about using options as a long-term investing strategy, focusing on advanced insights beyond basic options trading.
Simon Erickson hosts a discussion with banking expert John Maxfield and crypto advocate Caitlin Long about upcoming regulatory changes in banking and crypto.