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▶ 22:26 · $GOOGL · $OPENAI · $ANTHROPIC · Anthropic building proprietary inference stack alongside Google and OpenAI
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In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

Mala Gaonkar - Founder of SurgoCap Partners | Podcast | In Good Company

2026-01-21 · 6 company · 8 thematic
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mala gaonkar

Founded SurgoCap in 2021 with $1.8B, now ~$6B AUM. Spent 23 years as founding partner at Lone Pine Capital, one of the most successful hedge funds. Focuses on concentrated, long-duration moats across enterprise data/tech, financial services, healthcare services, and industrial technologies. Uses data-science debiasing and private-market access.

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“Google will have its own inference stack um open AAI uh anthropic and others”
—mala gaonkar
now playing · $GOOGL · $OPENAI · $ANTHROPIC
$ISRG···bullish· medium· posmala gaonkar
Robotic surgery penetration of 300M annual procedures seen as massive runway
Only early innings of robotic surgery adoption across ~300M global surgeries; combination of haptic feedback, mapping software, and surgical workflow integration drives lower erro…
$TSM···bullish· medium· posmala gaonkar
TSMC's process-engineering moat cited as systemic, multi-layered advantage
TSMC owns not just the leading-edge fab but the entire process-engineering ecosystem around chip manufacturing, creating a systemic moat that is hard to replicate.
$NVDA···bullish· high· posmala gaonkar
Gaonkar details Nvidia inference moat and admits sunk-cost bias from 2015 exit
Inference is the annuity stream of AI; application-specific chips (ASICs/TPUs) built for inference workloads create very long-duration moats. Gaonkar missed the full move after se…
$GOOGL···bullish· medium· posmala gaonkar
Google's custom TPU inference stack highlighted as key AI infrastructure play
Google's vertically integrated TPU stack for inference workloads reduces cost and creates a durable moat in the AI inference layer.
$OPENAIneutral· lowmala gaonkar
OpenAI building proprietary inference stack alongside Google and Anthropic
Major frontier model providers are each developing their own inference infrastructure, reinforcing the view that inference is a distinct, defensible layer.
$ANTHROPICneutral· lowmala gaonkar
Anthropic building proprietary inference stack alongside Google and OpenAI
Major frontier model providers are each developing their own inference infrastructure, reinforcing the view that inference is a distinct, defensible layer.