Managing Partner, BluBird Capital Engineer - xApple | xQualcomm | xIntel | Startup exits, Tennis player🎾, JohnsHopkins alumni

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Got to share Fox Business set with Savita Subramanian of @BankofAmerica Her view: some AI trades are fading. My view: rates are a headwind but data centers are permitting long-duration power assets at 15-30 year terms, the cheapest they've ever been. The buildout isn't slowing. The financing just shifted. Loved being in the room where these conversations happen live. $wulf $cifr $mu $hut
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Heading to FOX BUSINESS MAKING MONEY WITH CHARLES PAYNE in studio! 2pm ET Don’t miss it! Will talk data centers META earnings SpaceX $WULF $CIFR $HUT $META $SPCX
Heading to NYC for my first in-studio appearance on Fox Business. Been on 5 times remotely from San Diego. It’s time to face the lights! In the city Oct 22-23. If you’re around and want to grab coffee or talk semis, ideas for 2027. DMs are open.
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Scott DeBoer on Micron($MU) call-> ∙DeBoer said there is no viable scaling path for 4F². ∙4F² is complex and costly, with fundamental physics problems at the leading edge. ∙6F² is fine for now. ∙3D DRAM is the path forward instead of 4F².
Listening to Micron($MU) Technology and Product Webinar. Will do article for my subs. Key technology innovations - Vertical HBM, Hybrid bonding, Custom HBM. Micron is Co-designing, Co-validating and Co-leveraging technology more than ever before. More later... events.q4inc.com/attendee/83…
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Listening to Micron($MU) Technology and Product Webinar. Will do article for my subs. Key technology innovations - Vertical HBM, Hybrid bonding, Custom HBM. Micron is Co-designing, Co-validating and Co-leveraging technology more than ever before. More later... events.q4inc.com/attendee/83…
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PSA: $WULF has 28% short float. $CIFR 22%. If this rally has legs, the squeeze will be epic. I understand the drop last two weeks was epic too.
Let me tell you again the story on $WULF and why I am bullish. I am not here to pump this. I have owned TeraWulf since 2024, have not sold a single share, and I am here as a long-term investor. $CRWV pain should not be $WULF or $NBIS pain. Paul Prager, CEO of TeraWulf, came on CNBC today and alluded to what I have been saying for a long time. There is a critical distinction the market is ignoring: the colocation players – TeraWulf, Cipher, Applied Digital – versus the NeoClouds – CoreWeave, Lambda, Nebius. Nebius is run by stellar management. CoreWeave, not so much. The market is punishing the entire group for CoreWeave’s problems. That is a mistake. Here is what Paul laid out on $WULF. They have 3.5 gigawatts of power assets. This is a powered shell. They own the land. They deliver the power. They have investment-grade credit backing from Google through their colocation agreements, from Anthropic through a 20-year, $19B lease, and from FluidStack. They have already raised. They have a fortress balance sheet. What happens if rates go up? That is where the investment-grade credit backstop matters. Google is not going to stop running their compute. They are willing to backstop the payments. And this is the beauty of the colocation model. TeraWulf does not take the risk of owning the technology. What kind of GPU? What is the price of that GPU five years from now? They do not have to warehouse chips in special purpose vehicles. All they have to do is build efficiently, deliver on time, and deliver power. And their power comes from investment-grade utilities. The sell-off is mispriced. It is obvious. I have been an early investor in TeraWulf. Two years in, my conviction has only gotten stronger. The analysts have a $65 price target. My target is at least $30. And when this reprices, the line will be long. I have added to my $WULF position twice during the recent weakness. Share prices fluctuate wildly, but the focus should remain on what TeraWulf is actually building and delivering. Thank @Nogimics for recording and transcribing the interview. Also an early, earlier than me $WULF investor.
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Heading to NYC for my first in-studio appearance on Fox Business. Been on 5 times remotely from San Diego. It’s time to face the lights! In the city Oct 22-23. If you’re around and want to grab coffee or talk semis, ideas for 2027. DMs are open.
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$BB today announced that its QNX division has exceeded $1.2B in royalty backlog, establishing a new record for the business and marking a significant milestone in QNX's growth. feeds.issuerdirect.com/news-…
$BB is moving again. I’ve been writing about BlackBerry since early this year. All my articles are linked below. Yesterday I made the case that every new agent and every AI product has to be TRUSTED. For BlackBerry, trust is the moat. Safety certification takes years. Once QNX is designed in, it’s the stickiest component in a critical system. I see BlackBerry as a physical AI story that plays out in 2027. My position is built. I’m here to stay.
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On Black Monday Nasdaq up 1.1%, apparently a few funds blew up- Vara, Jane Street division . Can we stop giving teenagers billions? Also Friday AI trade was over and today it is back on and Nasdaq may not have found a bottom, the very bottom, the dark dark deep yet. Well for those there’s a Black Tuesday and Black Wednesday. I have always invested for the long term in companies with high growth. Period. Not out of the woods while rates stay high and midterms in 3 weeks but come on, let’s not call “it’s over” when compute is short till 2031. $QQQ
One more Black Monday post and I’m screenshotting these for posterity. I’ll bring them back at market ATHs just for the laugh. The buildout happens at higher costs and higher rates. It does not stop. 👇🏽 Most of you here are short-term traders who pride yourselves on buying the exact low and selling the exact high. You don’t care if the US loses to China with a slower buildout. You don’t understand what stopping the AI race actually means.
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Good morning everyone. Today is the anniversary of Black Monday. I waw a stock broker resigned myself my dreams were bashed forever. Then my clients called not angry or panicking but wanting to know our next move. More on 'Making Money With Charles Payne" Fox Business 2 PM
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One source models are a threat to OpenAI Anthropic valuations👇🏽 I said this last week on the FOX Business. I don’t know where Anthropic IPO ends up $1.5T or $1.7T or lower. The better path would be just to stay private and show they have revenue durability. piped.video/bJJelLgg1Pc?is=9QAF…
Intel's CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, said China could catch up to U.S. semiconductor technology within 5-10 years. Regarding AI, he cited Moonshot AI's and DeepSeek as not technologically inferior to Anthropic or OpenAI and are significantly cheaper. He expressed concerns of the foundry market being monopolized by 1 or 2 firms. "TSMC, Intel, Samsung Electronics, and Japan’s Rapidus must all expand production bases." Lip-Bu emphasized the necessity of government support for foundry investments, noting that such projects are a heavy burden for private companies. The USG needs to give full support and more to Intel! $INTC $TSM
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Schneider Electric lifted its annual targets for the second time this year after data-center orders kept flowing. Schneider raised its full-year expectations for both organic revenue growth now projected at 12% to 14% and profitability. The company anticipates data-center demand to remain strong in the fourth quarter, with continuing pricing momentum offsetting the hit of raw-material inflation and tariffs for the year as a whole. -WSJ
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A really good post on NEOCLOUDS and COLOs from @BlackPantherCap All you need to know in one solid post!
Everyone that owns neoclouds such as $WULF $IREN $NBIS $CIFR $APLD should read this: The market is CONFUSING a $CRVW problem with an AI demand problem. AI infrastructure stocks are getting CRUSHED, but the evidence doesn't point to collapsing demand. It points to a financing problem at CoreWeave. And the market is treating very different businesses as if they're all the same. That's the part I try to pay attention to. > GPU rental prices are rising. > Hyperscalers are still spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure. > The biggest AI labs are scaling rapidly, and access to power remains one of the biggest bottlenecks in the entire buildout. None of that means every company in the sector is a good investment. Far from it. But there's a big difference between a demand problem and a financing problem. Right now, the market seems to be mixing the two together. Demand for compute is still strong So, let's start with what's actually happening in the market: @matthew_sigel pointed out that Blackwell Ultra (B300) GPU rental prices had risen for 17 consecutive days, reaching a new all-time high based on verified transactions from U.S. neoclouds. That's a pretty important signal. High-end compute isn't suddenly flooding the market. It's still scarce. nitter.siddz.com/matthew_sigel/status/2… Then there's the spending: @unusual_whales highlighted that $META, $AMZN, $MSFT and $GOOG are expected to spend around $750 billion on capex this year, mostly tied to AI infrastructure. That's more than 80% above last year's roughly $410 billion. Think about the scale of that investment. nitter.siddz.com/unusual_whales/status/… The AI labs are scaling, too. Anthropic's reported revenue figures are substantial, OpenAI continues to operate at a massive scale, and demand for cloud compute remains strong. Even older GPUs like the H100 and A100 continue to command meaningful rental prices. None of this guarantees that today's spending levels will continue indefinitely. Capex can slow, pricing can change, and new capacity will eventually come online. But the evidence doesn't point to an industry where customers have suddenly stopped wanting compute. @Kalshi also highlighted Anthropic's claim that AI could push U.S. GDP toward $44 trillion by 2030. Whether that exact forecast proves correct is another question. The important point is that the labs are still building toward a future that requires ENORMOUS amounts of computing power. nitter.siddz.com/kalshi/status/21114018… @saxena_puru made a point worth keeping in mind. Hotter inflation brought rate concerns back into focus, and investors started looking much harder at the cost of financing AI infrastructure. But the demand picture is different from the financing picture. GPU rental prices remain elevated. The market is repricing the cost and risk of building out capacity, not necessarily the need for that capacity in the first place. nitter.siddz.com/saxena_puru/status/211… CoreWeave is where the real problem sits. And this is where things get more complicated. CoreWeave isn't just building infrastructure and collecting rent. Its model depends heavily on financing expensive GPU capacity, locking in customer contracts, and earning enough on those contracts to cover its capital costs. That creates a very different risk profile when interest rates and credit spreads move against you. The recent All-In Podcast discussion with Ben Horowitz, Chamath Palihapitiya and David Sacks highlighted the financing risks at CoreWeave. I think the distinction they raised is important: strong demand for AI compute doesn't automatically translate into attractive returns for every company financing the infrastructure. Here's how I see the situation: The figures discussed in the recent All-In Podcast episode paint a pretty uncomfortable picture: Debt and obligations: Roughly $35 billion to $50 billion, depending on what is included. Additional financing: Around $35 billion potentially needed to fund its existing commitments. Borrowing costs: Previously around 8.5%, with some bond yields reportedly climbing toward 15%. Customer concentration: Roughly 75% of revenue reportedly comes from a relatively small group of customers. Contract structure: Fixed-price agreements can leave CoreWeave earning less than it could in a rising spot market, while its financing costs keep moving. These figures need to be read in context. Debt, leases and future funding requirements aren't interchangeable, and bond yields or credit default swap spreads aren't direct predictions of what will happen. But the underlying issue is clear: CoreWeave needs substantial capital to deliver on commitments it has already made, and that capital is becoming more expensive. You can have strong demand and still have a bad business model if the economics don't work. That's the distinction investors need to understand. (You can watch the whole episode here, I highly recommend it. piped.video/_b3LfMflIGs) Chamath laid out the financing risk during the discussion. If a business relies on borrowing heavily and earning a spread between its financing costs and what customers pay, a sudden increase in credit spreads can wreck the economics. Ben Horowitz drew a comparison with his experience at LoudCloud in the early 2000s. The company committed to expensive bandwidth when prices were high, only to see those prices collapse later. Leveraged businesses can get trapped when the economics change faster than their contracts. Today's AI infrastructure market has different demand drivers and physical constraints. But the lesson about locking in capital commitments is worth taking seriously. David Sacks pushed back on the broader pessimism. His argument was that investors are dealing with an industry targeting enormous future outcomes, where short-term changes in financing conditions can trigger outsized market reactions. He also made an important distinction between different financing structures. Asset-backed financing tied to GPUs and investment-grade customers isn't the same as unsecured corporate debt. And a business with shorter payback periods or more flexible contracts has a different risk profile from one locked into longer commitments. Both sides can be right here. AI compute demand can continue growing rapidly while CoreWeave's financing structure creates real problems for shareholders. That's exactly why I try to look beyond the headline. And this is where I think the current selloff gets interesting. Not every company in the sector owns GPUs, takes the same technology risk, or relies on the same financing model. Take $WULF as a example: CEO @PaulBPrager has repeatedly stressed the difference between companies like CoreWeave and businesses focused on providing powered data center infrastructure. TeraWulf's model centres on developing and leasing infrastructure, with long-term agreements and credit support associated with counterparties such as Google. The company is positioning itself around powered real estate rather than taking exactly the same GPU ownership and technology risk as a pure neocloud. That doesn't make it risk-free. Construction costs, financing, delivery timelines, customer concentration and the conversion of contracted revenue into actual cash flow all matter. But the risks are different. nitter.siddz.com/paulbprager/status/211… @anni_sen has been making a similar argument. The market has been punishing a broad group of companies for concerns that are particularly acute at CoreWeave. But owning land, securing power and delivering data center capacity isn't the same business as buying expensive GPUs, financing them with debt and taking the risk that those assets become less competitive over time. Consider the differences: CoreWeave: GPU ownership, financing costs, customer concentration and fixed-contract economics. TeraWulf and Cipher: Infrastructure development, power availability, construction execution and lease economics. Applied Digital: Data center development, customer contracts, financing requirements and delivery execution. Nebius: AI cloud infrastructure, GPU investment, customer demand and the capital required to scale. These companies still have substantial risks. Long-term contracts don't automatically guarantee attractive returns, and secured power doesn't guarantee that a project will be delivered on budget or on time. But their balance sheets, funding requirements, contract structures and exposure to GPU depreciation need to be evaluated individually. nitter.siddz.com/anni_sen/status/211082… nitter.siddz.com/anni_sen/status/211151… That's why I don't think a broad selloff automatically tells us the whole sector is broken. The important question is how that company turns AI demand into shareholder value. Power is still the bottleneck. There's another part of this debate that often gets lost in the noise. AI infrastructure doesn't appear overnight. You need electricity, grid connections, land, permits, data centers, cooling systems and the equipment to run them. Those constraints take time to solve. That doesn't mean every company with access to power will win. Power has to be available where customers need it, infrastructure has to be delivered, and the economics have to justify the capital invested. But it does mean the industry can't simply switch on unlimited supply because GPU demand is strong. The physical buildout remains a major constraint. And that is one reason I wouldn't interpret pressure on CoreWeave's financing model as proof that the broader AI infrastructure buildout is about to unwind. My takeaway: I think investors are dealing with two separate questions. 1/: Is demand for AI compute still growing? The evidence currently points to yes. GPU rental prices remain elevated, hyperscalers continue to invest heavily, and the AI labs are scaling. 2/: Will every company building AI infrastructure turn that demand into attractive returns for shareholders? Absolutely not. CoreWeave's debt, funding requirements and contract economics deserve serious scrutiny. Strong demand doesn't eliminate financing risk, and a company can grow rapidly while still delivering disappointing returns to shareholders. But that doesn't mean every neocloud, data center developer or power-focused infrastructure company has the same problem. For me, the job is to separate the companies with fragile financing structures from those with more sustainable economics, credible counterparties and a realistic path to generating cash flow. The selloff may create opportunities. It may also expose businesses that were never as attractive as their growth rates suggested. The key is to distinguish between the two. A financing problem at one company is not, by itself, evidence that the AI demand thesis is broken. -BP Please note: This is my personal take and not financial advice.
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"Power will be the moat... people will hitchhike to get power. 1.4TW power short. It is critical to own the land, power and shell" @chamath on All in Pod $WULF $CIFR has permitted assets and they have worked through NIMBY with multi-year in Terawulf case 20 year investment grade contracts, payments backed by Google. Read my analysis on $WULF . CoreWeave Crash, AI Trade Cracks, Anthropic IPO Red Flags, Bill Gates Do... piped.video/_b3LfMflIGs?si=5mRj… via @YouTube
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One more Black Monday post and I’m screenshotting these for posterity. I’ll bring them back at market ATHs just for the laugh. The buildout happens at higher costs and higher rates. It does not stop. 👇🏽 Most of you here are short-term traders who pride yourselves on buying the exact low and selling the exact high. You don’t care if the US loses to China with a slower buildout. You don’t understand what stopping the AI race actually means.
Replying to @sheslee @KushPatil_
Yes. Those resources will come at a premium. The buildout will happen at a higher cost. Inflation will be reflected in everything including high beta stocks. Inflation is how the govt avoids paying their debt.
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KeyBanc analyst John Vinh reiterated a $1,750 target price on $MU Micron and called it one of his favorite ideas following a trip to check supply chains in Asia. His findings included that pricing for DRAM in the fourth quarter is expected to rise by 15%-20% from the previous quarter and Google is looking at extending long-term memory-supply agreements through to 2035. -Barrons
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I literally questioned Anthropic $2T valuation 2 days back - listen at 1.40 on FOX BUSINESS -MAKING MONEY WITH CHARLES PAYNE. Today they are considering a discount of $500B. The news 2 days ahead. China’s chip advancements raise NEW concerns for US tech piped.video/bJJelLgg1Pc?is=6yRs… via @YouTube
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