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Dott. Arnbjörn Eggerz
22. Mai 2026
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N03 – Comprendere gli investimenti capex dell’AI: analogie tra ferrovie e dot-com

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Le notizie delle ultime settimane stanno facendo il lavoro di un intero calendario editoriale. Anthropic è nella fase finale di un round da cinquanta miliardi di dollari a una valutazione riportata di novecento miliardi di dollari, e le persone di cui mi fido nelle cap table mi dicono che il numero finale sarà più probabilmente sopra che sotto tale cifra. OpenAI si attesta a ottocentocinquantadue miliardi post-money dopo aver chiuso a marzo un round da centoventidue miliardi di dollari. SpaceX, con xAI ora integrata, sta preparando un roadshow per una IPO a una valutazione riportata di un trilione e tre quarti. Tre aziende il cui fundraising combinato nel 2026 potrebbe superare l’intero mercato IPO statunitense del 2025 per un fattore cinque.

È il momento giusto per condividere e riprendere la domanda su cui io e il mio team stiamo lavorando con family office e contatti aziendali da circa sei mesi: quale analogia storica si adatta davvero a questo ciclo tecnologico, e quanto costa all'investitore che agisce di conseguenza scegliere l'analogia sbagliata.

Questa edizione si concentra principalmente su un tema — l’anatomia strutturale del ciclo dell’AI vista attraverso i boom storici — e utilizza quanto emerge per dire qualcosa di concreto su come i clienti dovrebbero pensare oggi all’implementazione dell’AI. Come sempre, fornisco anche un punto di vista sull’impatto europeo di questa tendenza globale.

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Dott. Arnbjörn Eggerz
20. Mai 2026
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N03 - Making sense of AI’s capex investments: analogies between railroad and dot.com

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Past weeks’ news is doing the work of an entire editorial calendar. Anthropic is in the final stage of a fifty-billion-dollar round at a reported nine-hundred-billion-dollar valuation, and the people I trust on the cap tables tell me the final number is more likely above than below that. OpenAI sits at eight hundred and fifty-two billion post-money after closing a hundred-and-twenty-two-billion-dollar round in March. SpaceX, with xAI now folded in, is preparing a roadshow for an IPO at a reported one and three-quarter trillion. Three companies whose combined 2026 fundraising could exceed the entire US IPO market of 2025 by a factor of five.

This is the moment to share and revisit the question my team and I have been working through with family offices and corporate contacts for about the last six months — what historical analogy actually fits this tech cycle, and what does the wrong analogy cost an investor who acts on it.

This edition stays mostly on one topic — the structural anatomy of the AI cycle seen through historical booms — and uses what comes out of that to say something concrete about how clients should be thinking about AI implementation today. As always, I also provide a European impact of this global trend.

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Dott. Arnbjörn Eggerz
24. April 2022
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N02 - VC bubbles, European funding numbers and a new season for Netflix

The first edition has just been published. Finally, and in the process with some glitches. And already the second editions is supposed to follow. Here we go. As so many concurrent topical events happen, I decided to focus, in this edition, on a meta topic.

Observations

The bubble that … did not burst - yet

The New York Times featured an article about VCs talking for years about a bubble,

Dott. Arnbjörn Eggerz
17. April 2022
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N01 - Volkswagen, Tesla and Twitter

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My team and I often brief customers on current developments in tech, mostly with European focus. Also, we keep track of relevant developments for ourselves and discuss them. So, the idea came up, why not to share some parts of this digestion in form of a public Iceventure newsletter? This is an experiment, so format and frequency are undefined and subject to experiments. Maybe it will turn paid, maybe not. Let’s try. Content in this edition:

Volkswagen vs. Tesla - in the end, it is the car industry and how established industries end
Twitter, Elon Musk and thoughts about Europe 
Graph - Ukraine's energy reserves
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Observations

Volkswagen vs. Tesla

Volkswagen just published its Q1/2022 earnings announcement.

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