What top executives and analysts are saying in podcasts, word for word. Sourced from 160,000+ actively transcribed podcasts via Particle Podcast Intelligence.

OCTOBER 28, 2026  ·  COVERING OCT 19 – OCT 27  ·  6 MIN READ

"The idea of having a share class with no voting rights, to me, it’s not really a share. I mean, it’s a financial interest in the company, but you’re not actually owning the company if you don’t have a vote in the company. So we are supporters of dual class shares… But our view is that it’s good to have ownership."

Adena Friedman — Chair & CEO, Nasdaq
Squawk Pod, Oct 22. Asked by CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin about Meta's plan to issue new shares with no voting rights.

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"[The new share class is] a little unusual, but it doesn’t necessarily make it bad. But yes, if you’re buying Meta, you’re buying a share of Mark Zuckerberg’s company. And you don’t have to. There’s nobody forcing you to." — asked by host Ed Elson about Meta's new shares with no voting rights

"…[Anthropic’s IPO] has that big disclaimer that we often have with these types of IPOs that you as a shareholder will never get to a controlling interest. That is always going to stay with the founders… investors, again, are going to have to really get comfortable with that, that they’re going to trust this group of seven people to decide what’s good for humanity, to decide what’s good for the company, even if that doesn’t mean maximizing shareholder value." — asked by Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow about the co-founders' 50.1% voting control

"…the biggest takeaway is the fact that now we can all see that this question of is this profitless prosperity, can Anthropic keep growing but just losing unbelievable amounts of money, is probably not true." — asked by CNBC's Carl Quintanilla what viewers should know about the filing; Wellington owns Anthropic shares

"[The AI boom] will pull back. I mean, history tells us this… you can be positive about the technology and still say our capital markets tends to overfund in an exuberance. There’s some game theory, too, that everybody wants to get in on it, on railroads, on canals, on the internet, and on this." — asked by Bloomberg's Paul Sweeney how to frame the AI boom

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"…this sort of divergence in perception between the US risk and the French risk goes to the very core of the French problem right now, which is that for a lot of people, owning France and especially French debt has now become a career risk." — after saying clients ask him when to buy U.S. bonds but wonder who would still own French ones

"We’ve had a real surge in crude exports… We’re not seeing anything commensurate when it comes to natural gas or product exports through Hormuz… [Ukraine is] going to try to close the Russian war ATM… We’re in two energy wars. And we have U.S. refineries going full throttle, delaying maintenance. We just have no slack in the global refinery system right now." — asked by host David Greely whether energy can still be discussed as one market

◈ PHI MOVERS — HOTTEST & COLDEST THIS WEEK
Public stocks gaining and losing the most conversation vs. baseline · Oct 19–Oct 25

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PHI — Particle Heat Index: how much a company is being mentioned on podcasts versus its own 4-week baseline. 1.0 = normal; 2.0 = twice the usual chatter. Movers are ranked by distance from that baseline across the US-listed names we track. We read the transcript lines behind every name we print and remove spikes that came from namesakes or unrelated chatter. Full methodology ↓

"Even spending $220 billion in CapEx this year, we’re leaving a meaningful amount of demand on the table." — asked by a16z's Ben Horowitz how Amazon knows how much is too much to build; later in the interview, on how much capacity is spoken for:

"[2026] is obviously at this point sold out. [2027] is largely sold out… A good chunk of [2028] is sold out."

"If your question is, can there be an overbuild? Yes, because you can have some constrained components… There could be things which cause bottlenecks and then you could have overbuilds… But am I confident that the compute we are planning for, we will have uses for it given enough time? Absolutely, yes." — asked by Alex Kantrowitz whether AI will see the overbuilding that railroads and fiber did

"I love challenges, and I don’t like doing anything that’s dangerous. I’m a very conservative person, and I have a saying that there are no brave old people in finance, because if you’re brave, you might win once or twice, but you can’t win forever."

◈ THE PARTICLE HEAT INDEX (PHI), EXPLAINED
The number next to the companies we track in this issue

The formula. PHI = distinct podcast episodes mentioning the company in the most recent full week ÷ its average weekly episodes over the trailing four weeks, computed from entity mentions across 160,000+ actively transcribed podcasts in Particle's podcast intelligence database. Movers are ranked across the US-listed companies we track.

How to read it. It's a ratio with no ceiling. A quiet company that suddenly hits the news can print 10 or higher. Pills are colored by temperature: blue for cold, gray for baseline, warming to red as conversation heats up. Before a name is printed we read the transcript lines behind it, so a spike is real discussion of the company and not a coincidence of names.

0 — silent this week 0.4 — cooler than normal (Wipro) 1.0 — baseline chatter 2.4 — running hot (Texas Instruments) 5.2 — this week's extreme (Supermicro)

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