In short: Not a stock view: one of only two industry leaders he credits with defending the sector in plain language during 2020–23 — "Chris Wright, the current US energy secretary. He was the CEO of Liberty Energy with this Bettering Human Lives report. In my opinion, no other CEO did that in any sort of public way." Everyone else "put out ESG reports that I thought were a bunch of nonsense."
No stock view at all — Liberty appears as one half of a two-name case study in how to defend an unpopular industry. Its founder Chris Wright (now US energy secretary) published a report called "Bettering Human Lives" that argued in plain language why the world uses hydrocarbons and what happens to poor countries without them.
Murti's point is comparative: while nearly every other CEO responded to the net-zero years with an ESG report that amounted to "we're not as evil as you think," Wright made a positive case in ordinary English. Murti says this failure of nerve across the industry is literally why he started Super-Spiked. The transferable lesson he draws for the tech industry, facing its own data-centre backlash, is the same — argue the benefit in human terms, don't lead with productivity gains that people hear as job losses.
1:13:46It was Amin Nasser, the CEO of Aramco, and it was Chris Wright, the current US energy secretary. He was the CEO of Liberty Energy with this "Bettering Human Lives" report. In my opinion, no other CEO did that in any sort of public way. Everyone had an ESG slide. Everyone talked about their net zero scope one and they're going to do — I'm not saying they shouldn't be doing any of that stuff, but I'm saying explaining why we use energy, communicating clearly and without compromise. Chris did that.
In short: The near-term caveat on AESI, not a rating: "its quasi-competitor, Liberty Energy (LBRT), recently reported a disappointing quarter. The market seems to be assuming AESI will, too. That's certainly possible but such an outcome now appears to be well-discounted after the price collapse since May." No view offered on LBRT itself.
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