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$000660.KS···neutral· mediumejaaz
SK Hynix marks memory-trade top; surges 16% after Leopold liquidation
SK Hynix's July 10th 'ringing of the bell' moment marked the peak of the memory trade that drove Leopold's 4x-leveraged portfolio; the stock later jumped 16% intraday when his for…
$000660.KS···neutral· mediumjosh kale
SK Hynix IPO marked top tick for Leopold's memory trade
The July 10 SK Hynix IPO excitement marked the peak of the memory/AI infrastructure trade; subsequent oversupply and funding pressures triggered the sell-off that cascaded into Le…
$CITADELbullish· highejaaz
Citadel buys Leopold's book at 40-80 cents, makes $4-6B in hours
Ken Griffin's Citadel acted as bailout buyer, purchasing Leopold's entire leveraged portfolio at a steep discount after helping drive prices down via rate-hike rhetoric and target…
$ANTHROPICbullish· highejaaz
Leopold's Anthropic stake saves fund after 67% drawdown
Leopold bought Anthropic at Series H ($60B valuation); secondary markets now imply ~$1.2T valuation, making the ~$5B stake the sole reason the fund remains up 80% YTD despite the…
$ANTHROPICbullish· highejaaz
Anthropic stake saves Leopold fund from total wipeout after 67% drawdown
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness fund bought Anthropic at Series H ($60B valuation) and the position grew to ~$5B, offsetting catastrophic public-market losses and le…
$CITADELbullish· highejaaz
Citadel profits $4-6B buying Leopold's distressed book at 40-80 cents on the dollar
Ken Griffin's Citadel specializes in bailout investing — repeatedly acquiring blown-up fund portfolios (Enron, Amaranth, GameStop, now Leopold) at deep discounts and extracting ma…
$BE···neutral· lowjosh kale
Bloom Energy surges 25% on Leopold liquidation day
Bloom Energy, a power infrastructure play covered previously by the podcast, was among Leopold's holdings that ripped 25% the day after forced liquidation ended, validating the po…
$IRM···neutral· lowjosh kale
Iron Mountain up 26.5% in Leopold liquidation rebound
Iron Mountain (data center REIT) was among Leopold's holdings that surged 26.5% the day after liquidation, supporting the AI data center infrastructure thesis.
$IRM···bullish· lowejaaz
Iron Mountain jumps 26.5% as data-center REIT catches AI infrastructure bid
Iron Mountain, a data-center REIT, surged 26.5% on the liquidation day, reflecting market recognition that physical AI infrastructure (power, cooling, space) remains a structural…
$BE···bullish· mediumejaaz
Bloom Energy rips 25% in a day as AI data-center power play
Bloom Energy's fuel-cell technology for data centers is a direct beneficiary of AI infrastructure power demand; the stock surged 25% on the day Leopold's forced liquidation ended,…
$GOOGL···bullish· mediumejaaz
Google cloud margins and capex surge supports AI infrastructure thesis
Google's cloud revenue margins and capex are 'going through the roof', turning cash flow negative for the first time, confirming massive hyperscaler spending on chips, memory, and…
$GOOGL···neutral· mediumejaaz
Google cloud margins and capex surge signal sustained AI infrastructure spend
Google's cloud revenue margins and capital expenditure are 'going through the roof,' turning cash-flow negative for the first time in history, confirming that hyperscaler infrastr…
$MSFT···bearish· mediumejaaz
Microsoft record earnings challenge Leopold's short software thesis
Leopold was short Microsoft and other software applications betting AI models would absorb them, but Microsoft just posted record earnings, suggesting the short thesis may be wron…
$MSFT···neutral· mediumejaaz
Microsoft record earnings contradict Leopold's short-software thesis
Leopold shorted Microsoft betting AI models would absorb application-layer value, but Microsoft just posted record earnings and cybersecurity/software stocks have risen, suggestin…
$NVDA···neutral· lowejaaz
Nvidia flat over six weeks as memory stocks sold off
Nvidia up only 0.33% over the last month and a half while memory stocks crashed, raising questions about whether AI infrastructure demand is already priced in.
$NVDA···bullish· mediumejaaz
Nvidia flat over 6 weeks but long-term GPU demand from hyperscalers intact
Despite Nvidia being up only 0.33% over the past month during the memory selloff, hyperscaler capex (Microsoft, Amazon, Google) continues to drive structural GPU demand, making th…