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  "generatedAt": "2026-10-22T04:12:33Z",
  "disclaimer": "Analysis and opinion, not investment advice.",
  "kind": "person",
  "slug": "oguz-erkan",
  "name": "Oguz Erkan",
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  "summary": "Oguz Erkan is named in 6 Parts of The Buildout, most recently Part 17: The Guarantee Has No Date. Argued in Part 3 (The borrowing is rational), Part 3 (Voices that cross sides), Part 9 (Not every habit), Part 12 (Voices that cross sides), Part 14 (Voices that cross sides), Part 17 (The cash flows cover it).",
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      "part": 3,
      "headline": "The Machines Will Work. The Debt Might Not.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-debt-behind-the-machines/"
    },
    {
      "part": 5,
      "headline": "OpenAI and Anthropic Are Not the Same Business",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/anthropic-grew-142-percent-openai/"
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    {
      "part": 9,
      "headline": "Habit Was the Moat. Agents Are Draining It.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/habit-was-the-moat/"
    },
    {
      "part": 12,
      "headline": "The Model Is Not the Price",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-model-is-not-the-price/"
    },
    {
      "part": 14,
      "headline": "The Cash Arrives Unevenly",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-cash-arrives-unevenly/"
    },
    {
      "part": 17,
      "headline": "The Guarantee Has No Date",
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      "part": 3,
      "section": "Demand has teeth",
      "excerpt": "Oguz Erkan’s framework, It’s Time To Be Bullish On Compute, Again, treats the AI trade as a reflexive loop that has survived a test.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-debt-behind-the-machines/"
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      "part": 5,
      "section": "A premium still holds",
      "excerpt": "Oguz Erkan offered a test before the outcome: if laboratories trying to take share had to raise prices, demand was structurally strong.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/anthropic-grew-142-percent-openai/"
    },
    {
      "part": 9,
      "section": "Habit is not a moat",
      "excerpt": "Oguz Erkan calls its position unshakable because “a hotel can’t find a distribution channel as big and strong as Booking; there is none.”",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/habit-was-the-moat/"
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    {
      "part": 12,
      "section": "The frontier is still paid",
      "excerpt": "Oguz Erkan, on September 13, drew the Part's line: OpenAI and Anthropic take the lion's share of token dollars while their share of token volume declines.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-model-is-not-the-price/"
    },
    {
      "part": 14,
      "section": "The cash still covers it",
      "excerpt": "Oguz Erkan argued on August 23 that Meta's committed capital already earns a return in the core business and that internal deployments can be delayed or cancelled.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-cash-arrives-unevenly/"
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    {
      "part": 17,
      "section": "The cash flows cover it",
      "excerpt": "Oguz Erkan of Capitalist Letters noted on August 23, 2026 that Meta can delay or cancel its own builds, though not its pay-or-take contracts with neoclouds.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-guarantee-has-no-date/"
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      "side": "borrowing-is-rational",
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      "claim": "Rental prices for six-year-old A100 GPUs are up more than 20 percent year-to-date, a direct read on AI model providers' willingness to pay and, by extension, end-customer demand.",
      "date": "2026-08-06",
      "url": "https://www.capitalist-letters.com/p/its-time-to-be-bullish-on-compute",
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      "claim": "His own tripwire: hyperscaler free cash flow may go negative in 2027; leverage on speculative returns repels.",
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      "part": 9,
      "question": "whose-margin-pays",
      "side": "not-every-habit",
      "sideLabel": "Not every habit",
      "claim": "Booking's competitive position in its core market is currently unshakable because its global, differentiated network reinforces supply-side lock-in, which in turn reinforces demand growth; a dissatisfied hotel cannot find a distribution channel as…",
      "date": "2026-09-13",
      "url": "https://www.capitalist-letters.com/p/booking-holdings-deep-dive-an-attractive",
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      "claim": "Google Search is declining but the decline is concentrated in informational rather than transactional queries; citing Ahrefs and Pew, Oguz Erkan says transactional-intent query share grew from 24.7% in 2025 to 26.4% in 2026, and Booking gets 61-70%…",
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      "claim": "The dollars with two labs, the volume leaving, fragmentation in 3-5 years.",
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      "claim": "Oguz Erkan does not regard the AI capex fear as valid for this cycle: capex went from $28 billion in 2023 to $72 billion last year and is expected at $130-$145 billion this year and $202 billion by 2030, but committed capital is already earning ROI…",
      "date": "2026-08-23",
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      "claim": "The loop's binding constraint is capex finance: hyperscaler free cash flow may go negative in 2027 and investors dislike leverage contingent on speculative returns, as the depressed valuations of Oracle and CoreWeave show, so continued spending…",
      "date": "2026-08-06",
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      "claim": "Neocloud contracts are pay-or-take and leave Meta little flexibility once committed, while internal data center deployment can be delayed or cancelled; even in the worst case committed capacity is unlikely to exceed internal consumption long term…",
      "date": "2026-08-23",
      "url": "https://www.capitalist-letters.com/p/meta-deep-dive-opportunity-or-a-trap",
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