duolingo is quietly becoming something else

2026-05-05 · 4 company · 2 thematic

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antonio linares

Antonio Linares runs a concentrated six-stock portfolio plus micro investments, focusing on 'singularity scalers' — companies with proprietary data moats that compound value via AI scaling laws. He bought Palantir at ~$7, held through 2022-2024 drawdowns, and teaches a course on modern value creation processes. His framework emphasizes betting early on extraordinary companies, holding forever, and learning from concentrated mistakes.

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“LLMs are supercharging the business... ontology velocity means if you get more proprietary data even slightly faster than the next guy, and therefore your AI is slightly better than the next guy at any point in time, that marginal advantag…”

—antonio linares

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Duolingo thesis: AI supercharging value creation as stock dislocates from fundamentals

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Palantir cited as historical example of stock dislocated from fundamentals

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Amazon cited as historical example of stock dislocated from fundamentals

Referenced as a prior case covered by the speaker where Amazon's stock price dislocated from fundamentals before recovering.