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Anthony Pompliano

Founder & CEO, Professional Capital Management

Search every verified Anthony Pompliano interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Anthony Pompliano, founder and CEO of Professional Capital Management and chairman and CEO of Silvia Inc., has been active in media appearances discussing AI strategy, Bitcoin, and his company's approach to specialized AI models. In interviews, he argued that large AI labs face more competitive pressure than widely recognized, citing his firm's experience with Silvia, an AI financial assistant. He stated that Silvia routes queries to its own fine-tuned models on its own hardware, claiming a cost saving of approximately 97% compared to frontier models and improved accuracy on personal finance topics. He described the broader AI landscape as moving toward specialized workflows and vertical applications rather than reliance solely on general-purpose models, and said he considers AI an "offensive" investment for growth while Bitcoin serves as "defense" against currency debasement. Pompliano also discussed business operations, including a subscription rollout for Silvia that converted up to 45% of its top 3% of power users, and an engineering team of under ten people competing with larger companies. He promoted his book "How to Live an Extraordinary Life, Volume 2," and in various appearances discussed topics such as Bitcoin price consolidation, the role of personal AI agents like Meta's Muse and Instinct, and the potential for Anthropic's IPO. He expressed skepticism about the long-term revenue growth of private AI labs, noting that token prices and consumption per customer may be declining, while also acknowledging these products remain widely used. His comments on these topics reflect his ongoing focus on applied AI, sovereign models, and the intersection of crypto and technology investing.

Recent appearances

  • How Eric Jackson Uses AI to Pick STOCKS

    October 25, 2026 · 📺 Anthony Pompliano Clips

    Anthony Pompliano and Eric Jackson, founder of EMJ Capital, discuss how the rise of retail investors has changed public markets, and why more CEOs now want to engage directly with retail shareholders. Eric explains why being open, authentic and transparent matters, and why online movements still need real leadership to have an impact. Eric also walks through how he uses AI in his own research. He explains why asking AI for the next big stock rarely works, why asking it to compare how different companies approach the same market is far more useful, and how different AI models each have their ow…

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  • Why Google Won't Chase Every AI VERTICAL

    October 22, 2026 · 📺 Anthony Pompliano Clips

    Anthony Pompliano and Logan Kilpatrick of Google DeepMind dig into one of the biggest strategy questions in AI: will people use a few general-purpose AI products or thousands of specialized ones? Logan shares a thought exercise he poses internally, whether Google will have 10,000 products or just two or three in the next five to ten years, and explains why people are wired to reach for the right tool for each job. Logan argues that startups can almost always beat a big company in a vertical because they are more focused. Pomp shares how Silvia uses model routers and specialized workflows, and…

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  • Inside Google's Massive Gemini 4 BET

    October 20, 2026 · 📺 Anthony Pompliano Clips

    Anthony Pompliano asks Logan Kilpatrick what to take away from Google DeepMind's large pre-training run for Gemini 4. Logan says it shows the company's commitment to the frontier, explaining that pre-training has long been a strength for DeepMind thanks to its talent, its TPU fleet and Google's infrastructure. He also shares how he thinks about competitors, including the Chinese model labs. Pomp asks how to separate signal from noise in an industry that sometimes feels like the TMZ of tech. Logan explains how he filters the noise to stay focused on building better models, and why his biggest c…

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  • Bitcoin Millionaire Reveals His AI Strategy | Anthony Pompliano

    October 20, 2026 · 📺 Billy Boone and Anthony Pompliano

    Anthony Pompliano joins me to talk about where the money is going in the AI and Bitcoin build-out: why he calls AI offense and Bitcoin defense, why he thinks the big AI labs face more headwinds than people realize, what to own as data centers get blocked, whether China is behind the backlash, where the moats are when small teams can beat the frontier labs, the future of content when agents do the watching, the army of AI agents running his company, and why physical AI is what we're all underestimating. Anthony's book, How to Live an Extraordinary Life, Volume 2, is out now: https://lnk.to/how…

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  • Your Best Customers Are Costing You Too Much. Now What? Anthony Pompliano

    October 19, 2026 · 📺 Entrepreneur Podcasts

    Anthony Pompliano built an AI financial assistant people loved. Then his most engaged users started costing him too much money. That’s a good problem to have. But it’s still a problem. His solution came from an unlikely place. Olive Garden’s breadsticks. Here’s how Silvia cut costs without cutting what users love, and got 25% of monthly active users to pay. Find Anthony's book ⁠here⁠: https://www.amazon.com/Live-Extraordi... This episode of Problem Solvers is presented by AT&T Business. To learn more about how the right connectivity can help support your business as it grows, visit att.com/s…

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  • Why Google Builds AI Differently Than OPENAI

    October 19, 2026 · 📺 Anthony Pompliano Clips

    Anthony Pompliano asks Logan Kilpatrick of Google DeepMind how he responds to critics who say Google is behind in the AI race. Logan calls it a fair criticism given how much people expect from Google, and explains that the company is spread across a huge portfolio, from genomics and weather to new frontier models like Gemini 4 and new audio models. Logan says Google is laser focused on the frontier, pointing to early signs of recursive self-improvement that he believes other labs are seeing too. He explains why Google's approach differs from building the smartest model first and figuring out t…

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  • Why Isn't Bitcoin at $100K YET?

    October 18, 2026 · 📺 Anthony Pompliano Clips

    Anthony Pompliano asks Jordi Visser what's going on with Bitcoin and why it isn't higher yet. Jordi's message is simple: be patient. He points to how Micron broke above its 200-day moving average, pulled back to test it, and then kept running, and explains why he sees a similar setup forming in crypto, driven by AI agents. Jordi says traditional investors keep reaching out about tokenization, and Pomp notes how recent research from BlackRock, Bloomberg and Citrini now echoes Jordi's view on crypto meeting Wall Street. Jordi also clarifies that he was never bearish, only acknowledging a bear ma…

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  • We Built an AI CFO to Help You Grow Your Net Worth | Anthony Pompliano

    October 18, 2026 · 📺 Peter Yang

    Pomp and I worked together at Facebook a decade ago before he became an investor, best-selling author, and public company CEO with an audience of 3.3M. We had a great chat about how to build an extraordinary career and life and how he's building Silvia, an AI CFO for independent investors, to take on the AI labs. Pomp and I talked about: (00:00) Why Pomp never had a career plan (04:43) Why an audience is the best way to win deal flow (10:33) Paid work trials instead of job interviews (18:35) Hire for revenue, not margins (20:32) Silvia: An AI CFO for independent investors (25:00) How AI foun…

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  • Same Team, Never More PRODUCTIVE

    October 17, 2026 · 📺 Anthony Pompliano Clips

    Anthony Pompliano tells Bill Barhydt, founder and CEO of Abra, that after retraining himself with AI he could almost change his bio to software engineer. Bill pushes back a little, saying pure-play software engineers still have about two years before their role changes, while product managers, architects and engineers are quickly becoming the same person. Bill shares how he works with his own AI assistant, Max, which his executive team can access through separate Slack channels for legal and finance, and how he can now give instructions straight from his watch. Pomp explains why so much old so…

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  • How Personal AI Agents Will Make MONEY

    October 16, 2026 · 📺 Anthony Pompliano Clips

    Anthony Pompliano shares a hot take: the big AI labs are already behind in personal agents and specialized applications, pointing to Muse and Instinct leading the way and to how much cheaper it is to run Silvia's own models. Jordi Visser pushes back, questioning how personal agents will actually make money and arguing that the attention economy is set to collapse. Jordi says there are only two things he wants to focus on: the toll collectors, which to him means crypto, and compute, where demand will outrun supply. He explains why he expects most AI apps to get commoditized, and shares his advi…

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  • Why Bitcoin's Wild Swings Are Getting SMALLER

    October 14, 2026 · 📺 Anthony Pompliano Clips

    Anthony Pompliano asks Bill Barhydt, the founder and CEO of Abra, why Bitcoin keeps climbing when almost every macro signal says it should be falling, from higher oil prices to a 10-year yield above 5% and a rate hike. Bill says markets hate ambiguity, and that even knowing the Clarity Act won't pass removed some uncertainty, with the midterms as the next big question mark. Bill walks through why Bitcoin's run-ups have been getting smaller each cycle, what the power law suggests as the market gets bigger, and why he believes the government servicing its debt by effectively printing money keeps…

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  • 'I DON'T NEED WALL STREET': Independent investors CHALLENGE traditional financial advice

    October 13, 2026 · 📺 Fox Business Clips

    Silvia Chairman and CEO Anthony Pompliano analyzes AI stock trends and Broadcom warnings on 'Big Money in the Morning'. Subscribe to Fox Business: https://bit.ly/2D9Cdse Watch more Fox Business Video: https://video.foxbusiness.com Watch Fox Business Network Live: http://www.foxnewsgo.com/ FOX Business Network (FBN) is a financial news channel delivering real-time information across all platforms that impact both Main Street and Wall Street. Headquartered in New York — the business capital of the world — FBN launched in October 2007 and is one of the leading business networks on television. I…

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Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“Yeah, I think the thing to take away from this is like the commitment to the frontier. Uh, doing large pre-training runs is extremely expensive. It is like a large order of magnitude of investment. It's like a I don't I don't uh the numbers are are quite large. Um and I think it's important I think the other point of this actually is like pre-training has been a significant strength for DeepMind in the past. Um and s”

“Well, to be clear I'm not saying that the big labs are zeros. I just think they have more of a headwind than people realize. And if you think of let's take a pie of 100% of all AI generated revenue that's going to go to pay for intelligence. So, not take out for a second, you know, hardware, take out uh data centers, you know, land, all that kind of stuff. Just people are going to buy tokens. They're going to buy int”

“We started a $20 a month uh paywall or subscription. And the way we rolled it out is pretty interesting. We started with the top, I think, 3% of all power users. We showed it to them first. How many of them were able to convert? I think we got as high as 40 or 45% of our top 3% users all started to pay. Makes sense, right? They They love the product. Then we rolled it from 3 to maybe 5 or 7%, then 10%, then 15% of us”

“We basically said, what are all of the options available to us to address this, right? One, should we just let people keep using it as much as they possibly can, spend whatever it takes, and just raise more money or you know, just pay for it and it's worth it. The second thing was, are there things that we could do where they're still asking the same number of questions, but maybe we don't need to consume as many tok”

“They are coming after us. Peter, do you know what it's like to wake up one day and you've known you you you have been waiting for a trillion-dollar company to compete with you? That happened to me. It was awesome. Psych. Cuz every single person involved in the business, every investor, every single person immediately emails, 'What do you think?' And you're like, 'Dude, I know they're trying to compete.' But here's th”

“I only believe there's two things to focus your attention on. The toll collectors. That's crypto. As far as I'm concerned, I want the digital money guardrails. Toll collectors. I don't want to invest in muse and then watch as seven other agents are released. And that's before we have agents in Europe and agents in Asia. Like this is the thing, we have competition globally. I just want toll collection velocity. I don'”

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