Tomorrow will be my last day at Google after 27 years, and watching it grow from 25 people to 190,000+ has been an amazing journey. Below is a note I shared with many people internally at Google today. An excerpt is:
It has been an absolute pleasure to work with you and to help build some of the most widely used and impactful products of all time. As a kid, I dreamed of helping build software that would be used by many people, and Google now has thirteen products used by more than a billion people (amazing!). Our work has had a tremendous impact in the world, and I have been lucky enough to collaborate and form friendships with many colleagues that I deeply admire, respect, and enjoy. It still brings me joy every time I see people out in the world using our products to find information, handle email, translate documents, watch videos, learn new things, navigate and understand the physical world, browse the web, use their phone, run large-scale computations on our infrastructure, ride in an autonomous vehicle, or perform complex tasks with the help of our AI systems. I hope you all share this sense of joy, because it is a shared accomplishment! Thank you to all of my colleagues at Google over many years!
Now I'm excited to go start @DiscoLoopAI with my longtime friends and colleagues @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML, and @quocleix.
(Updated post: slightly redacted to not have some personal info)
Did Citadel really just liquidate Situational Awareness…
Then brought up entire markets the next day?
$NBIS +26.25%
$IREN +25.96%
$SHAZ +22.82%
$SNDK + 23.98%
$BE +23.67%
$SKHY +16.98%
$INTC +12.16%
Amid many others. This has gotta be one of the wildest liquidations I’ve seen.
Just a random thought: $JBL seems highkey compelling long idea at $38B.
Don’t really think markets have priced in their 1.6T LRO pluggable transceiver business yet.
Especially if it’s “how much can you make” with $SIVE as the bottleneck H1 2027. Not really is there enough demand.
They already have the massive supply chains setup… and took over $INTC pluggable lines.
Seems more scalable than $AAOI capex ATMs for laser fabs, if you have $SIVE + tons of different fabs like Win Semi + others mass producing lasers and $JBL doing the rest.
So you’re getting that Innolight style setup for free (with US premiums), with an already validated hyperscaler supply chain.
Don’t currently have positions, just throwing out a thought for others to do research on.
Prob H1 2027 is when everyone starts realizing. Maybe 40% rereating seems plausible?
(dont have any open positions, just a thought)
Names like:
- $ASX
- Sumitomo Electric
- $JBL
- $VICR
- $GFS
- $AAOI
- AlChip
- $TSEM
- $FN
- Furukawa Electric
- $CLS
- $NBIS
- $NOK
- $AMKR
- $LITE
- $COHR
Off the top of my head.
So basically, AI exposure trading in the $10-100B range.
Likely have compelling ROI right now compared to indexes or $ARM to $MRVL that ran quite a bit?
(Just a disclosure, only have financial interest in NBIS/TSEM/AAOI above)
I mention a lot of smaller ideas, but that’s just to chase outsized returns.
Still feels like many of these have room to go.
$EWY 32% IV into 58% IV expansion trade.
Into underlying SK Hynix / Samsung increase way ITM.
Was such a goated call? (~383% return)
Had way too many great ideas this year…
Still super proud of predicting South Korea index volatility increase due to memory concentration