Philippe Laffont: Coatue processes 100 million credit card receipts daily
Philippe Laffont · Coatue’s Laffont Brothers. AI, Public & VC Mkts, Macro, US Debt, Crypto, IPO's, & more | BG2 · Bg2 Pod · Jun 20, 2025 · at 18:36
Philippe Laffont, founder of Coatue Management, describes the proprietary consumer transaction data infrastructure used by the firm.
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“As part of the data science that we do, we process probably a hundred million credit card receipts a day. So we have a very fine view of what the US consumer does. And we have another data set where we know what consumers do based on their email receipts.”
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