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Leopold Aschenbrenner, that 24-year-old guy who invests in AI,

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he's very clearly the best AI investor in the world.

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There is word on the street that his notional position in this fund is now over $20 billion.

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And Ejaz, we were looking at one of your posts from, what, a month ago,

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and it was 13. So the fund seems to be doubling basically every quarter.

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And we have some pretty serious and interesting updates on what Leopold has been investing in.

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You'll note that in the last episode, we covered his portfolio.

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He was actually short a company that a lot of people are familiar with,

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the largest one in the world, NVIDIA.

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And nobody could figure out why. He had over $9 billion worth of shorts on the

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largest and hottest AI company in the world.

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Today, we have some news that might actually uncover the reason why.

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It comes in the form of a debt offering. NVIDIA is actually raising money,

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which doesn't seem to make sense on the surface.

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Why would a company as big as NVIDIA be raising what just closed as $25 billion

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in cash when their margins in particular are so, so high?

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So on the episode today, we're going to talk about Leopold's portfolio,

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how he's doing so well, what he's looking forward to, and what he's positioning

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himself to, to go next, but also what's going on with NVIDIA.

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Ejaaz:
So Leopold Ashenbrenner, for context, ex-open AI researcher,

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raised a fund about one and a half to two years ago. It was a small casual raise

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of $200 million, I believe.

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And since then, since his last 13F filings, the fund is worth $13.7 billion.

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Ejaaz:
And so everyone obviously wanted to know what positions he was taking,

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what his thesis was, what was the next major trade. Now, it's important to understand

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up until a month ago, Leopold was extremely bullish about everything AI,

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particularly picks and shovels.

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So we're talking about the NVIDIAs, the GPU makers, all that kind of stuff.

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And then a month ago, it was revealed that he wasn't especially bullish on the

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semiconductor landscape. He was still bullish on things like memory and power,

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those kinds of bottleneck constraints.

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And maybe he was bullish near clouds as well. But he wasn't bullish,

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the most valuable company in the world, NVIDIA.

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And we have a total of $9 billion worth of puts in NVIDIA, ASML,

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and Oracle. So these are companies that are key to the infrastructure boom,

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which is what has been heralded as the best and most certain trade in AI.

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So people started getting concerned. and they were like, is this the AI bubble

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popping? Like, we don't see any signs of this. NVIDIA is still selling so many GPUs.

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What could be the problem? And since then, we've uncovered...

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A few things. The major one being that NVIDIA just raised $25 billion in a bond

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offering from external capital.

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So what this means effectively is they're raising money outside of their balance

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sheet. So it causes the question, which is why on earth is the most valuable

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company in the world that has the most money that's making the most money that

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has the highest margins raising $25 billion?

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In fact, they weren't only going to plan to raise, they were only going to plan

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to raise 20 billion and they actually wound up raising 25 billion which was

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more than three times oversubscribed and it's funny when in the last episode

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that we were talking about this portfolio are we in a bubble

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how do we know when the top is getting closer to being in we're like don't worry

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about it all these companies are spending a tremendous amount of capex but they

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have a huge amount of revenue to fund all that it's coming right off the balance

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sheet this is the first time since 2021 in the case of nvidia where they're actually raising money

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outside of the balance sheet they're not taking their money on the balance sheet

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which i believe is about 12 billion dollars they currently have.

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And that leads me to a few questions. It's like, Leopold is short,

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NVIDIA is raising some debt, when it seems like they have infinite cash and infinite margins.

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What's actually going on here? So IJAS, maybe you could help us unpack what

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this deal actually was. This is a bond offering, which is not just a general

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fundraise. It's a little bit different.

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And at the end of the day now, NVIDIA now has 25 billion additional dollars

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on their balance sheet for what I assume is a pretty low rate.

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Ejaaz:
So let me give you both sides of the story here.

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NVIDIA has around $13.7 billion on their cash balance sheet.

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So this is money that they could just spend to do whatever they want.

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So the question then is, why are they raising external capital?

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Well, the analogy is, think of you purchasing a house. Typically,

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most people would, if they have the money, they would still,

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take a mortgage out. Why? Because you can, you know, use your capital for other

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purposes, and you can just borrow money at a really cheap rate.

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Now, interest rates have been pretty cataclysmic for a while now.

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But if you're NVIDIA, the most valuable company in the world,

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that has the most valuable stock in the world, the most desirable stock in the

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world, hey, you could raise at pretty decent rates. And I've got the breakdown

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over here for the $25 billion bond offering.

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They've got bonds that range between two to 30 years. So it's effectively free

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money that they're raising at. The interest rates are almost nothing.

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It's almost as good as government yield bond rates itself, which is like the

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best kind of offering that you could potentially get.

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And there were 4x oversubscribed for people who wanted to help invest in this money.

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So $85 billion worth of capital wanted to kind of pummel into this $25 billion

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raise. So NVIDIA could just have their pick of the litter. Now,

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if you want to look at the reasons behind and why they're doing this.

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Nvidia's stated claim officially is, this is just financial bookkeeping.

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We wanna pay off and refinance some debt that we have on our balance sheet,

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which sounds familiar because Google did something very similar about three

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weeks ago, and then they did it earlier on this year in February.

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So you could take the stated claim that this is financial bookkeeping,

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but the other side of it is.

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Does it seem pretty coincidental that NVIDIA, Amazon, Google,

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and I think three of the other hyperscalers have all raised external debt financing

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in the last month and a half?

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And it's a mixture of equity selling, which is what kind of like Google's done

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just last week or three weeks ago.

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And it's a mixture of bond raises as well. So Leopold could be right in the

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sense that this might be marking the start of a bubble popping or coming down.

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The house of cards are coming down.

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If this is the sign of a levered bet or a levered raise. But right now,

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if you look at the financial structuring of this entire thing,

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it doesn't entirely say that.

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That's what I'm thinking too, is I'm looking at Leopold's portfolio.

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I'm like, man, $9 billion is a lot of money to be short NVIDIA.

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And another thing that I found out as we were researching is on May 18th,

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the board of NVIDIA actually authorized an additional $80 billion in buybacks

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and raised their dividend from a penny to 25 cents per share.

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So they multiplied the dividend by 25 times.

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They pledged 80 billion dollars to buy back shares from shareholders and a company

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doesn't really hand 80 billion dollars back to shareholders and raise their dividend 25x

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in the same month that it borrows out of need so there are these two conflicting

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things it's like well they're clearly not borrowing out of need because they're

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actually giving back to the shareholders so the question why why are they doing

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this well because it's cheap money and it seems like the way that this ai

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pump this ai bubble is being funded is just slightly shifting to a new model because

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everyone wants to be participating everyone wants to be involved in these capital

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raises nvidia has recognized this they could do so even more cheaply by issuing

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their own bonds than they can from going anywhere else so they're like hey

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if we could take some money off the table we're going to do that and it seems

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like nvidia is actually just doing just fine which leads us to the question

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of like what is leopold actually thinking how is his

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mind changed over time i mean you looked at the nvidia stock it hasn't been

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doing great the one you were just showing on screen it's not like nvidia has

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been crushing recently but it's still like five trillion dollars most valuable

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company in the world i mean only down seven percent in a month is

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nowhere, considering everything else has been pumping. But it's still like,

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I don't know, it doesn't seem like it's doing that bad.

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Ejaaz:
So listen, I think that NVIDIA is not going anywhere. I think their products,

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their GPUs, and now the CPU line that they just opened up a few weeks ago is

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going to do overwhelmingly well. There is a surplus, an exponential surplus

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of demand for AI products.

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And there's only one main machine provider that can support that type of demand.

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And that is NVIDIA. So I don't think they're going anywhere.

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What I do think is the picks and shovel AI trade is extremely overcrowded.

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And that's what Leopold's most recent portfolio positioning tells us.

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Like, I mean, let's take a look at this, right? So as of their last 13F filing,

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they were pretty bearish on the semiconductor landscape,

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through the form of a short position or put position in NVIDIA,

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ASML, Oracle, and a few other infrastructure scale providers.

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But at the same time, Leopold was very long companies in the memory sector or

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in the power sector or in the neocloud sector iron is one of his biggest positions.

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And that since his 30 net filing is up 20 so like you know again he's hitting

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some nails on the head but he's bearish some layers of the semiconductor or

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infrastructure stack specifically and that tells me one very clear thing which is

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leopold isn't bearish um ai infrastructure i don't think he's calling it a top

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on the bubble he just thinks that the

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trade itself on picks and shovel is overcrowded and that money is going to rotate somewhere else.

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So if the question is, where is that money rotating?

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There's two answers. The most obvious answer is it's going to the next infrastructure

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bottleneck, which we've spoken about on previous episodes is power,

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it's memory, it's data center networking, it's stuff like that.

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We've spoken about this on previous episodes.

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And then there's this other secret investment that was uncovered a few weeks ago, right?

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Yeah, this is the weird one for me. I was like, wait, this came out of left

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field. You actually told me this yesterday. And I was like, no way that's true.

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There's surely no chance that Leopold's Fund, Situational Awareness,

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20% of the fund owns Anthropic Equity.

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Yes, the AI company that everyone knows and loves, Anthropic,

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20% of Leopold Asch and Brenner's fund is involved in Anthropic.

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How do we know this? Well, it's not totally confirmed, but the Wall Street Journal

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and a few other publications have apparently sources that are very close to

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the matter that confirm this.

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And it seems as if this is a huge wildcard that we were not anticipating in

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his fund. Because when you publish these 13F filings, the way it works is you

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just publish your public positions.

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It doesn't have anything to do with privately held equity.

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Anthropic, turns out, is a huge amount of privately held equity.

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And that's where we get to this $20 billion expected valuation of his portfolios.

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Because, I mean, 20% of the fund being in Anthropic, and he's been in it,

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what, EJAS, for over a year now? Like he invested early 2025?

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That's like, being invested in Anthropic is like dog years. Each year is like

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seven. So a year in Anthropic feels like a tremendous return.

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And that's a huge readjustment to his portfolio when we see this?

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Because now it feels like we have a much more clear picture.

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Ejaaz:
Yeah. So the first time he invested either privately or through the fund in

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a VC investment in Anthropic was in March 2025.

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That was when Anthropic was worth $60 billion.

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Double digits. Now of Anthropic's recent valuation, they're valued at $965 billion.

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That is a 15x markup. And if you do the math, as we're showing on the screen

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today, his liquid portfolio, so that's the thing that's reported in the 13F,

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as of his recent 13F filings was worth $13.7 billion,

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with the anthropic stake that he supposedly has as reported by the Wall Street

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Journal, adds another $7 billion,

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bringing him to a total AUM of $20 billion. Now, if you're,

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how crazy this is. Bill Ackman, one of the most famed investors in the entire

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world who's been in this game for 30 to 40 years.

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His fund is worth just around $20 billion, Pershing Capital.

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Leopold's been in the game for about a year and a half.

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And this guy is 24 years old. He has zero, and I must emphasize,

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zero investing experience, right?

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But he's made some of the most amazing calls ever. And the craziest part about

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all of this, and I've said this on previous episodes, is that he gave us the

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entire thesis in a 65-page.

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AI essay about a year and a half ago when he started his fund,

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Situational Awareness, called Situational Awareness, that broke down his entire trade.

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specifically into other bottleneck constraints.

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And that's the trade that's playing out today. So it's just extremely impressive.

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And that tells me where the rest of the money is flowing. If he's bearish NVIDIA,

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money's going to power, memory, but also he wants to invest in the mines themselves.

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Screw the picks and shovels, invest in the mines, and Anthropoc is his favorite bet.

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This seems like the trend. And I think this is probably a little bit ahead of his time.

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Again as always but it seems like the new trend is pivoting away from the bottleneck

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thesis over the last what 12 months or so it's been everyone's trying to find

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the bottlenecks where are they it's in the precious metals it's in the memory

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it's in ram it's in all these

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these things that people perceive to be bottlenecks and it's true and that run

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has happened but it seems as if those are getting close to

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more fairly priced everyone kind of understands the business they understand

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the market they understand the revenues that are projected forward and they

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kind of have a reasonable valuation so a lot of that value has been captured

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the next rotation is what we're interested in it's where does the money flow

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you think about the things most critical to ai it's the actual physical build

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out it's it's what xai has been doing when you look at xai the company or spacex

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where does all of the revenue come from it has absolutely nothing to do with

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rocket ships it's the ai build out look at the deal this time with anthropic

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look at the deal this time with google those account for more than starlink

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and starship and their entire satellite business combined there's clearly a

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tremendous amount of value

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a huge amount of demand and then the question now shifts to who are the people

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that are building this okay spacex is the obvious answer spacex

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I mean, after hours last night, he traded at $230 a share. That's $3.1 trillion

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my God, what a run. They just closed the cursor acquisition.

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They're now valued at $3 trillion.

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Elon made more money in a day than Warren Buffett did in his whole career.

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So that is a whole separate thing. But what are they best at?

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trends, that's where the money heads to. So what does that actually look like

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Ejaz physically manifest? Who are the companies involved?

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Who is there at the rotation ready to just receive this hot ball of money that's flowing around?

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Yeah, so it's a lot of the unsexy infrastructure companies, as you mentioned.

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Marvel is the company that Jensen Huang went on stage at Computex,

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which is like a major AI conference two weeks ago in Taiwan.

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And he said, this is the next trillion dollar company.

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half billion dollar investment in Marvel.

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I don't know where the lines are in terms of like insider trading or market

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manipulation at this point, but the stock did pump 70% subsequently after he made that statement.

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I think it's easy to call a top on AI infrastructure right now.

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And if you think about previous financial crisis, like in 2008,

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there was a lot of levered positions. There was a lot of financial and market manipulation.

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We don't quite see the same here yet.

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And I'll tell you what the distinct differences are. Number one,

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there are people paying for the products that these companies are creating.

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So there are real customers buying the products. Back in the dot-com boom,

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back in the financial crisis, you don't really have this. And then the second thing is.

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We physically, by the laws of physics, can't lever up right now because we're

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constrained by human capital.

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you can't build data centers fast enough. You can't scale memory chips fast

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enough. You can't build the power lines and scale the energy grid and the infrastructure fast enough.

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We don't have enough men on the ground. We don't have the capacity to do that.

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There are laws, regulations, and a ton of red tape that is currently blocking you.

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So what you have here is an advantage, in my opinion, which is you can view

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where the money's gonna go, right? So you think that the picks and shovels trade

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is overtraded or it's overcrowded.

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That money's gonna flow into power. It's gonna flow into data networking like

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Astero Labs. It's gonna flow into a bunch of these different companies.

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And so you need to start thinking, hmm, okay, when will these contracts start to be materialized?

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When will these chip fabs end up being created? When will SpaceX's rockets start

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being launched into space, releasing his AI-1 satellites and harvesting the

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sun's energy to train AI models?

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What is that timeline? And then the bet I'm taking at least is like I'm investing

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accordingly based on that.

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flowing because it's how we've seen it flow from general AI stocks into the

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semiconductor infrastructure trades, which we've seen over the last year and a half.

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And if we scroll down a little bit in this artifact we we see that story playing

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out in his portfolio where it shows

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the ownership stake that he has on a relative basis the number one category

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what is it it's power it's energy second to that it's the memory and then it's

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the the clouds and the gpu miners it's the actual physical infrastructure he wants to

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own core weave the neo clouds he wants to own the the miners who have switched

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over to clouds he wants to just own that physical infra because that's where

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that the true bottleneck is and so sure there's smaller parts along the way.

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the physical manufacturing of these data centers is such a challenging thing.

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And it's the biggest bottleneck, if anything, just to get the permits to go build it.

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Who's solving this problem? Well, SpaceX is trying to put them into outer space.

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Who's solving the human problem? Well, Tesla is trying to build humanoid robots.

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But both of those things are a pretty long way out. So in the intermediary,

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there's a lot of opportunity in white space.

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And that's what he's going for. So as we start to wrap up this episode,

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there's like one last thing I think we probably want to mention,

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which is the subtle nuances that exist in his portfolio that I think are a little

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surprising and we didn't highlight before.

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a lot of it comes in optical and like kind of lower down the stack technology.

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Ejaz, I know you've been in the weeds about this. How does it work?

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What is his position? What is his thinking around, I guess, optics in general?

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Well, if you just generally look at his portfolio position that we're showing

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on the screen here, CoreWeave and Iron are basically some of the top neocloud providers.

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So what I mean by that is think of Amazon Web Services, like they create cloud

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services for any internet company that wants to create a thing.

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That's what these companies do for any AI company. They have the GPU infrastructure,

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they set it up for you, they do all the networking such that you don't need

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to focus on it. You can just train your models, get access to compute,

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and don't worry about any of the other kind of stuff.

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CoreWeave and Iron have been Leopold's biggest positions since he started the

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fund, or he's had very concentrated positions, and they have provided him the biggest returns.

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Now, I think it's worth pointing out that he still has the biggest positions

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focused in these two companies. In fact, he's privately invested in a company

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called Core Scientific, which helps unlock a lot of Core Weave's infrastructure.

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Provision, which means that he's effectively taken a levered bet on CoreWeave.

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And the fact that he still has major positions in these companies tells us that

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that trade, in his opinion, typically isn't over yet.

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And then if you look at cores and light, these are all optical fiber providers.

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typically if you need a semiconductor or GPU chips to speak to each other,

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requires like a lot of copper wires. And at some point when you have so many of these GPUs,

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copper wires get overheated. There's a lot of heat resistance.

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You lose a lot of energy. It becomes extremely inefficient. You know what isn't as inefficient?

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If you start using optical fibers. And that is kind of like the next leap,

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the next iteration to build data centers, to network and connect these GPUs,

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which will allow much quicker data transfer.

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That's much cheaper, much more cost efficient. And you can end up making more

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money on the inference or the training compute that you provide.

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That's another, it's very infrastructure heavy is the point that I'm making.

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So he's invested in those companies and invested in them at the power level

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as well. And I think, you know, it's very unsexy to say and talk about,

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but that is inevitably where the money is falling right now, in my opinion.

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Yeah, the copper thing was interesting for me because I learned how critical

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copper has been recently.

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For a lot of the close data transfer, copper is the only material that anybody wants.

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And the only time you stop using copper is when it becomes unviable.

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When you have to transfer data over too long of a distance, or like you mentioned,

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it gets too hot that's when you switch over to fiber but the combination of

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these two seems to be all that anybody wants so it's been interesting watching the copper trade

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as well even though leopold's not really invested in oh yeah you got the copper

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futures pulled up copper if you go to that one-year chart it's probably looking

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pretty strong yeah it's like a very strong

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commodity here because everyone needs it that is the the single most important

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critical element when transferring high bandwidth data over a very short distance

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but fiber is the next one so that's been an interesting thing to watch play

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out i think the materials play is always interesting that is the the base of

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all base layers is like what is the core material that goes in in order to get intelligence out

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copper's one of them of course lithium there's a whole bunch of them i think we

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Need to do uh we're due for that episode material episode josh i i think we need to do this.

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Um we should go down there because you know what leopold hasn't made his way

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down there yet and maybe we could front run him for the next rotational thesis

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we could go all the way down to the bottom of the stack we could go visit the

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copper mines see how they're making all this stuff happen

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but i think that is generally speaking the next rotation is from these perceived

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smaller bottlenecks into the real hard thing which is the hardware and building

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out these large data centers

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And whoever's capable of building out the data centers will collect all the

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money. We just saw what happened with SpaceX, how much money they were able

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to make because of how in demand these data centers are to have them online.

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And anyone who's capable of spinning them up, of producing enough,

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of producing power GPUs. If you could create GPUs with power,

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you are going to make all the money. And that's kind of where Leopold's at.

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I guess in summary, we're not in a bubble.

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Leopold has rotated, should probably still copy trade. Is that right? Does that sound okay?

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Yeah. Yeah, I'll admit, when I read his 13F, I was like, you're bearish the

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most valuable company in the world that has like demand projected into 2029.

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Like that is the worst take ever.

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And now I see this raise and I'm like, wow, if Nvidia continues to raise external

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debt, sell equity potentially in the future, if this trend continues,

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Leopold might be right again.

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And his portfolio will eclipse the best traders and the best investment funds in the world.

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I don't know, the guy keeps winning and it's very impressive to see.

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Yeah. So, I mean, here's the thing is he's never needed to sell anything.

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Dude's just been long only his whole life. So we'll see how,

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like you talk about, we talked about Bill Ackman earlier in this episode and

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dude's been around for 30 years and turns out being around for 30 years is actually

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harder than making like a 30X.

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If you can actually sustain this growth, if you can learn how to push the sell

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button, learn how to kind of hedge against risk, we're starting to see that.

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I mean, those $9 billion in shorts, he's not actually exposed

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with $9 billion of cash sitting there short that is through options that is

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through some leverage so it's

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not a direct one-to-one short but it's fascinating to watch we will see

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i am going to continue copy trading the boy leopold because dude has just been

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correct he is just not wrong so of his entire

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Portfolio josh what is the one stock that you'd be buying from him.

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I like the energy stocks i'm a big energy guy i think no matter what even in

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the case that ai demand slows down energy is still very much in high demand

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and And the demands of it from the general world are going up only.

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So even in the absence of AI, we need more energy. We need more electricity.

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Bloom Energy, a lot of companies that are building electricity throughput,

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I think, are the ones that I'm most excited about because they seem to be the

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most hedged. What is the singular trend that is not going to stop no matter

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what is our demand for energy, electricity, and power?

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And companies like Bloom Energy deliver on that. So that's the companies that

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I'm most excited about being long in. when I invest it's on a very long time

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frame I don't really like to trade much so that's why and that's kind of how

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I think of things what about you do you have any favorites

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Ejaaz:
I uh this is a cheat answer but it's wherever the intersection of what Jensen's

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investing in and whatever Leopold is investing in so the company that I'm like,

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copy trading is Marvel, which isn't something that Leopold currently owns,

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but it does sit very firmly in his optical fiber and power investment bet.

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And it's the one that Jensen put $1.5 billion behind. I've just noted that whatever

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Jensen invests in via NVIDIA, whether it's Intel, CoreWeave,

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or whatever it is, has just gone up only.

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And so that's currently where I'm at right now. I own some CoreWeave as well,

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which both Jensen and Leopold have been extremely bullish.

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Home so dude marvel up 270 in six months i think this is a good pro tip when

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people like jensen when people like trump they say go buy this stock

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you should probably go buy it it's paid off in pretty big ways like intel is

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up how many multiples from the time he bought it marvel is up how many multiples

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from jensen it's like these guys know what they're talking about or at least

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they have the ability to influence the outcomes of these companies and in that sense

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it has been a very wild ride i hope it continues

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i hope this keeps going it seems like it's probable to keep going

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i think we're all still long we're all still pretty optimistic and excited and

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we'll just continue to evaluate day by day

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coming up next is a spacex episode which i think we're very excited about spacex

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has been the biggest ipo ever they just closed their deal with cursor and there are a lot of new updates

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and interesting takes i believe on how to navigate this ipo how the unlock schedule

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is going to work where all the shares are and and how this is going to play

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out over the next six months i think is something a lot of people may be interested

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so that one's coming up next

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any final thoughts before we wrap up here on leopold portfolio update

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Ejaaz:
I'm curious about the skeptics that are listening to this that think that everything

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we've just said is incorrect and might potentially be wrong um tell us where

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we're wrong like i'm genuinely curious like i've i stared at the 25 billion,

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nvidia raised news yesterday and i was like i want to hate on this but,

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Ejaaz:
Look at it, looking at it financially, this seems like a sound thing.

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Ejaaz:
Like, why wouldn't you raise debt, like risk-free money? Like that makes complete

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sense. Like borrow other people's money and spend that versus like selling your

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own equity. Obviously that makes sense. Keep more equity, earn more money in the future.

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But if there's something that we're missing, if there's a pattern that you're

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We also have a newsletter that goes out twice a week. We put out an essay.

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That's the first essay of this week is coming out tomorrow. And then we're going

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to have the five weekly highlights that we always do at the end of the week.

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We are doing anything and everything to keep you up to date with everything

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Ejaaz:
that's going on with AI. And with that, I believe the episode's over. It's done.

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Josh:
That's it. Well, thank you all so much for watching. And yeah, let us know.

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Share with your friends if you enjoyed this episode leave a comment and yeah

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Josh:
I think that's everything so thank you so much for watching as always and we

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will see you in the next one

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Ejaaz:
See you guys.