In today's episode Jon and Peter talk about what the current downturn of Tiger Global
- Early March it came out that Tiger global investment portfolio *Venture portfolio* is down 33%
- Even before that Tiger Global has become a laughing stock, or the poster child of venture excess
- Did they make a mistake? Are they in trouble? Stripe’s recent $6.5B investment marks them down 50%
- What is Tiger Global?
- An investment firm focused on “public and private companies in the global Internet, software, consumer, and financial technology industries.”
- $58B under management (September 2022)
- What is their unique approach?
- Known for being extremely aggressive
- “Annoint” winners by dumping cash on the market leader
- What are their popular investments?
- Coinbase
- Facebook
- Flipkart
- LinkedIn
- Spotify
- Stripe
- Peter, why did you want to cover this?
- Sources
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