Right but aren’t you kind of underscoring the point? It’s not really the kind of vendor finance we are talking about then; it’s really just the finance industry moving into loaning other things, moving the storefront into another business. It’s pretty highly regulated.
Vendor finance of the kind Nvidia is doing is different: they are the single vendor for one thing, they are loaning to startups who otherwise might not get funding from banks, it’s coming from the same balance sheet as the product, and these loans are materially causing GPU scarcity.
In general, vendor finance of the kind Nvidia is doing is indicative of an uncertain market, and when it’s the only vendor and it causes the price of the thing to rise, that’s obviously bad.
The industry is very aware that it relies on this for its continuing growth and stability.
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Right but aren’t you kind of underscoring the point? It’s not really the kind of vendor finance we are talking about then; it’s really just the finance industry moving into loaning other things, moving the storefront into another business. It’s pretty highly regulated.
Vendor finance of the kind Nvidia is doing is different: they are the single vendor for one thing, they are loaning to startups who otherwise might not get funding from banks, it’s coming from the same balance sheet as the product, and these loans are materially causing GPU scarcity.
In general, vendor finance of the kind Nvidia is doing is indicative of an uncertain market, and when it’s the only vendor and it causes the price of the thing to rise, that’s obviously bad.
The industry is very aware that it relies on this for its continuing growth and stability.