Coatue Management

also referred to as: coatue

21 statements across 6 episodes · 12 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Feb 21, 2025 by Molly O'Shea · said 82 times in 22 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Everything said about Coatue Management, oldest first

Feb 21, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
O'Shea lists Bezos, Benioff, Coatue, and GC as Saturn investors
“We have General Catalyst, KOTU, Insight, O-One Advisors, Jeff Bezos, Mark Benioff, Dara, Neo, Elad Gill, Dylan Field, and Inspired Capital, and I'm sure there's more.”
Molly O'Shea Feb 21, 2025 ▶ 1:54 Taking on an $80 Billion Dollar Market with Gen Z | Dylan Diamond · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Mar 14, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Zuckerberg: Entry valuation was not a focus lever at Coatue
“Definitely wasn't as much of a concern at Cotu. For example entry valuation, it didn't, we kind of thought about the model differently at Cotu, and that just wasn't kind of the lever that we were focused on.”
Arielle Zuckerberg Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 16:33 Arielle Zuckerberg, "The Rizz & Tiz" Winning Founder Recipe · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jun 27, 2025 bullish
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O'Shea: Coatue and Altimeter data show OpenAI outpacing viral social platforms
“KOTU and Altimeter did like a bunch of different surveys and data science around OpenAI's traction and daily active users against social platforms. So they're comparing it against like, okay, there's like a resource, like a learning tool for knowledge, and now…”
Molly O'Shea Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 30:43 How Jack Altman Hit 100x Growth | Uncapped, AI, VC, Founders · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 23, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Coatue manages roughly $60B AUM, including $25B in public equities
“Cotu as a whole is probably, it's around sixty billion of assets under management. On the public equities, so we basically have public equities, which is around twenty-five billion, and then you've got a private's business, and then a credit business too.”
Michael Barton Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 5:51 Inside Coatue: $70B Hedge Fund’s AI & Retail Strategy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 23, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Barton: AI can already perform 85% of my hedge fund workload
“I think that today, 85% of what I do, Like basically can be done by AI. And it's not a question of, is the tech ready? It's how do we implement the tech?”
Michael Barton Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 35:01 Inside Coatue: $70B Hedge Fund’s AI & Retail Strategy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 23, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Barton: Any US computer-based job will likely be automated
“My view broadly is that any job that exists in the US where you work at a computer at some point will likely can be automated, including my job.”
Michael Barton Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 27:07 Inside Coatue: $70B Hedge Fund’s AI & Retail Strategy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 23, 2025 negative
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Barton: Melvin Capital fell 50% in two weeks during GameStop squeeze
“Before I worked at Code Two, I was working at Melvin Capital. And so, you know, many of you guys probably heard of Melvin as the hedge fund that was short GameStop. And so I lived through this period where we went from, at the time, probably The best performin…”
Michael Barton Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 2:51 Inside Coatue: $70B Hedge Fund’s AI & Retail Strategy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 23, 2025 bullish
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Coatue's worst-case financial model for AppLovin showed at least 3x upside
“You literally could not make the discount cash flow analysis, in your worst case scenario, be less than like a three X.”
Michael Barton Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 10:26 Inside Coatue: $70B Hedge Fund’s AI & Retail Strategy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 23, 2025 positive
Opinion
Barton: Coatue's Philippe Laffont actively cuts market exposure 50% during drawdowns
“One of Philippe's amazing qualities is that he is like the best risk manager I've ever seen. And he has this sense of when something is about to go wrong. Like, I've, like, it is incredible. Like, he, and it's really been great for him. I mean, and, you know i…”
Michael Barton Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 42:53 Inside Coatue: $70B Hedge Fund’s AI & Retail Strategy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Mar 6, 2026 neutral
Insight
Laffont: Initial TAM size is irrelevant compared to market expansion potential
“I have a personal view that I've developed, which is actually the size of the TAM is irrelevant. So I never listened to whenever an entrepreneur will pitch me a TAM, I really don't think about the TAM. I think about two things. I think about number one, Whatev…”
Thomas Laffont Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 24:06 Thomas Laffont, Coatue - Anthropic, Citrini Paper, AI Volatility & Next Mag 7 · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Mar 6, 2026 bullish
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Laffont: Anthropic grew materially between fundraising kickoff and announcement
“What was interesting about this one is the projections and the scale of the business grew materially. In between the fundraising kind of being discussed to eventually kind of being announced. And I think that speaks to just the incredible adoption of clock cod…”
Thomas Laffont Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 2:31 Thomas Laffont, Coatue - Anthropic, Citrini Paper, AI Volatility & Next Mag 7 · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Mar 6, 2026 bullish
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Laffont: No Coatue portfolio company plans to cut engineering staff due to AI
“What I can tell you is not a single one of the companies that we're kind of involved with is saying, wow, we're seeing so much more efficiency. We want to cut our engineering staff in half, right?”
Thomas Laffont Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 17:41 Thomas Laffont, Coatue - Anthropic, Citrini Paper, AI Volatility & Next Mag 7 · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Mar 6, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Laffont: Coatue plans to hire more investors as AI boosts productivity
“I can tell you for us, we're not looking to cut our investment staff or our you know, in half. We're hoping that they can do significantly more things and analyze more companies and just be better at their job. If that's possible, we'll want to hire more of th…”
Thomas Laffont Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 20:45 Thomas Laffont, Coatue - Anthropic, Citrini Paper, AI Volatility & Next Mag 7 · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Mar 6, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Laffont: Early Coatue models wrongly predicted iPhone prices declining five percent
“And in fact, the number one thing that we got wrong in our analysis of Apple in the early days is we had the price of the phone declining five percent in five years, right? Because that's kind of what you did as an analyst. You had to put declining ASPs. And i…”
Thomas Laffont Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 26:19 Thomas Laffont, Coatue - Anthropic, Citrini Paper, AI Volatility & Next Mag 7 · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 15, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rangwalla: AI Hardware Ratios May Flip to 4 CPUs per GPU
“Now, the ratio is actually moving from, to one CPU to four GPUs, and so it's improved kind of by two x already, and we think it actually has a chance to flip the opposite direction, which is one GPU to four CPUs, and so, and some people, very aggressive, say t…”
Jaimin Rangwalla May 15, 2026 ▶ 29:09 Chips, Gigawatts, AI, & Agents: Coatue's Public Markets Update | CIO Jaimin Rangwalla · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 15, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Rangwalla: Coatue favors Amazon and Google as hybrid shortage players
“I actually think Amazon and Google are an unusual camp, and those are the two companies that we really like because they are also a bit of a hybrid, in that Google has TPUs that they sell, and Amazon has talked about selling Tranium, or at least openly discuss…”
Jaimin Rangwalla May 15, 2026 ▶ 40:09 Chips, Gigawatts, AI, & Agents: Coatue's Public Markets Update | CIO Jaimin Rangwalla · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 15, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Rangwalla: AI is accelerating at a faster pace today than 1-2 years ago
“Ultimately what we've concluded at the moment is that the fundamentals are really strong, the market is really resilient, and AI is accelerating its pace. Even though it's hard for me to say that, and maybe someone says you're crazy, like, AI is all everyone's…”
Jaimin Rangwalla May 15, 2026 ▶ 48:56 Chips, Gigawatts, AI, & Agents: Coatue's Public Markets Update | CIO Jaimin Rangwalla · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 15, 2026 bullish
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Rangwalla: Anthropic Grew ARR From $9B in December to $30B
“It was nine billion dollars at the end of December, and that number was thirty billion, right? So they added twenty billion, they're adding, you know, ten billion plus or minus a month, almost two and a half billion dollars a week.”
Jaimin Rangwalla May 15, 2026 ▶ 14:15 Chips, Gigawatts, AI, & Agents: Coatue's Public Markets Update | CIO Jaimin Rangwalla · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 15, 2026 neutral
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Rangwalla: Tech leadership turns over 25% every five years
“You know, we've done the studies on it, like, almost plus or minus every five years, a quarter of the top 25 in tech usually come out, and a new four, five, six come into the top 25.”
Jaimin Rangwalla May 15, 2026 ▶ 51:29 Chips, Gigawatts, AI, & Agents: Coatue's Public Markets Update | CIO Jaimin Rangwalla · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 15, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rangwalla: Market Sentiment Has Zero Correlation With Stock Performance
“We did a an analysis on sentiment and how indicative is sentiment of what's actually happening in the market. And it's basically a coin flip. There is no like correlation between negative sentiment means the market should be down or it's contrary”
Jaimin Rangwalla May 15, 2026 ▶ 45:29 Chips, Gigawatts, AI, & Agents: Coatue's Public Markets Update | CIO Jaimin Rangwalla · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 15, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Coatue: TSMC is one of our largest holdings
“Even TSMC, which is one of our largest holdings they're taking price too, because they just, like, we have a finite amount of capacity, and so we have to try to figure out how are we gonna make sure that we're generating enough profits, and knowing that if we'…”
Jaimin Rangwalla May 15, 2026 ▶ 39:37 Chips, Gigawatts, AI, & Agents: Coatue's Public Markets Update | CIO Jaimin Rangwalla · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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