dave

T2 · manager / operator

Dave is a co-host of Dumb Money Live, an investment podcast. He participates in investment discussions, manages positions in Amazon, Robinhood, and Sweetgreen, and helps steer the show's research agenda including upcoming episodes on Take-Two/GTA 6 and a new spin-off show.

4 calls·4 names·50% bull·last heard 2 months ago·Dumb Money Live
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avg alpha
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highest conviction · one per company
1stmedium conviction
$SGSweetgreenposition

Dave buys Sweetgreen options for short-term social arb trade

Following Chris's lead, Dave buys options to play the wrap craze as a short-term trade, not a long-term investment, leveraging real-time social media intelligence ahead of institutional credit card data.

2ndmedium conviction
$BTCBitcoinposition

Dave holds 12% in Bitcoin as institutional adoption hedge

Bitcoin benefits from institutional inflows, ETF adoption, and debt deficit hedging; Dave holds 12% of liquid assets primarily in Bitcoin.

3rdlow conviction
$ROBINHOOD-VENTURES-INDEXRobinhood Ventures Indexposition

Dave invests in Robinhood Ventures Index for pre-IPO access

Fund provides retail access to late-stage private companies (Databricks, Revolut, etc.) with 2.13% fee and no carry; Dave up 20% since launch but prefers individual stock picking.

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Sweetgreen
MEDdave·Dumb Money Live·3 months ago· position
Dave buys Sweetgreen options for short-term social arb trade
Following Chris's lead, Dave buys options to play the wrap craze as a short-term trade, not a long-term investment, leveraging real-time social media intelligence ahead of institutional credit card data.
"I went options, not not long-term. I'm not I'm not holding Sweetgreen long-term. I'm just trying to play the uh the rap craze."
33:43
$BTC
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Bitcoin
MEDdave·Dumb Money Live·4 months ago· position
Dave holds 12% in Bitcoin as institutional adoption hedge
Bitcoin benefits from institutional inflows, ETF adoption, and debt deficit hedging; Dave holds 12% of liquid assets primarily in Bitcoin.
"I'm currently sitting at 12% of my assets in crypto, primarily Bitcoin. That's a lot, Dave. Of my liquid investable assets."
29:25
$ROBINHOOD-VENTURES-INDEX
Robinhood Ventures Index
LOWdave·Dumb Money Live·4 months ago· position
Dave invests in Robinhood Ventures Index for pre-IPO access
Fund provides retail access to late-stage private companies (Databricks, Revolut, etc.) with 2.13% fee and no carry; Dave up 20% since launch but prefers individual stock picking.
"I bought it. And I'm up 20% in it since it launched... they have a an expense ratio of 2.13%... no carry. It's just an annual fee."
45:00
$OPENAI
OpenAI
LOWdave·Dumb Money Live·2 months ago
OpenAI IPO announced at $850B valuation; Anthropic at $965B after $65B raise
Both frontier AI labs have announced public offerings, creating a cluster of mega-IPOs alongside SpaceX that will compete for retail capital allocation.
"OpenAI just yesterday announced that they are going public... their last uh valuation was 850 billion... last week we had Anthropic at 965 billion uh after raising an additional 6…"
18:02