Coatue Management

also referred to as: coatue

10 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 7, 2026 by Thomas Laffont · said 32 times in 15 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Apr 7, 2026
Disclosure
Laffont: Almost entire personal net worth is invested in Coatue funds
“I have virtually no outside investments, right? I do some as favors and things like that, but almost everything I have and own is in our funds.”
Thomas Laffont Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 29:55 FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor
Apr 7, 2026
Insight
Coatue views its limited partners as its true customers, not founders
“LPs are not talked a lot about in venture, which is kind of interesting. Like we talked a lot about the founder. We talked a lot about the companies, but I would say for us, we are pretty clear that our customer at the end of the day is our LPs.”
Thomas Laffont Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 29:37 FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor
Apr 7, 2026
Disclosure
Coatue informs founders of late-stage competitor investments without asking their permission
“If I view a perceived conflict between companies even if they're later stage, I will always let the founders know. Directly. And I'm not asking for their permission.”
Thomas Laffont Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 50:50 FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor
Apr 7, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Thomas Laffont predicts AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems will be a generational company
“That I think Will be kind of a generational kind of company.”
Thomas Laffont Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 35:24 FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor
Apr 7, 2026 positive
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Coatue's analysis of iPod semiconductors led to its early Apple investment
“And pretty soon if you started in semis at the time, all the roads led to one company and that was in Cupertino and it was Apple. Why? Well, because the iPod was starting to really gain traction, and an iPod was a semiconductor product, it had NAM flash, it ha…”
Thomas Laffont Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 17:45 FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor
Apr 7, 2026 positive
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Laffont: Coatue Led Snapchat's Series C at $1.5B Valuation
“Our most successful deal is one that broke all of the rules, ah, that I just laid out, which was Snapchat. Where I think we led the series C in that, an evaluation of about a billion and a half.”
Thomas Laffont Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 27:13 FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor
Apr 7, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Coatue correctly predicted early iPhone sales but mistakenly modeled declining prices
“When I look back at our old Apple model, I actually think we did a pretty good job on units. Where we were way off is we had the price of the phone declining five to 10% a year, because that's what every consumer electronics product did. And in fact, the ARPU …”
Thomas Laffont Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 23:05 FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor
Apr 7, 2026 neutral
Insight
Laffont: Meta and Alibaba Sparked Structural Shift by Staying Private Longer
“I think what really changed for us in the early 2010 was meta. Then Facebook and Alibaba staying private for longer. We just never seen companies of that scale who were that important to our research and our market not go public.”
Thomas Laffont Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 24:32 FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor
Apr 7, 2026
Insight
Venture capital operated in Word until hedge funds brought Excel modeling
“And that was an industry that was really done in Word, and we were Excel thinkers. So that was kind of a very different kind of mindset that we were bringing to the table.”
Thomas Laffont Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 29:12 FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor
Apr 7, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Coatue employs 20 to 30 data scientists for alternative data research
“We now have, I don't know, maybe 20 or twenty-ish, 20 to 30 people, something like that, in data science that are just processing different types of data and alternative data.”
Thomas Laffont Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 32:19 FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor
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