24 Year Old Billionaire Investor Bet BIG on these 5 AI Stocks (should you follow?)
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Do you want to know which AI stocks are
going to run next and make investors
life-changing money? Well, there is an
investor named Leopold Ashen Benner.
He's 24 years old, and last year he was
managing $1 billion, and he was in
charge of investing in AI, New Frontier,
emerging technologies. Today, that $1
billion is now worth over $5 billion.
This guy is younger than me by a large
margin, and he just went on a run that
made more money than any fund in the
world of AI. The fact that AI right now
is a very competitive market means that
the competition is stiff. So clearly
this guy Leopold is doing something
different than everyone else. So I
looked into his 13F filing on all his
positions and I want to share with you
my findings today. Some of these stocks
I have already caught on to myself
before doing the digging and other
stocks really shocked me and they were
new to me. You can see his portfolio
performance in Q1 2025. The value was
$257 million of his fund. In Q2, he
surpassed 600 million. And as you see,
each and every single quarter, his fund
has gained enormous value, sitting at
over $4 billion today in Q2 2026. This
guy is young and on a generational run,
but after doing my research, this isn't
your traditional investing story.
Doesn't seem like luck. He's done a
major recent pivot, and it's essentially
following his methodology, which he
listed in his 165page thesis called
situational awareness. You can Google it
or you can download my free guide that I
put summarizing his work in which stocks
I personally believe are the ones to
hold for the next 12 months in the
description. He basically predicts we
are going to reach AGI by 2027. In this
massive essay, he writes a story of how
he sees the AI revolution unfolding. He
was early on the chips play and now he's
predicting a pivot into infrastructure.
In fact, he recently dumped $300 million
of Nvidia. He dumped other stocks. many
of you also might be holding such as
Micron, Broadcom, TSMC, and many others.
What's risky but likely paid off for
Leopalt is he actually had Nvidia put
options, meaning he purchased puts
betting that Nvidia would fall and
Nvidia did have a nose dive from $195
per share to 165 in late February from
when he likely had the position open in
his filings. What stood out to me is his
approach is very much picks and shovels
play. He has shifted his focus to the
major constraint that investors haven't
really invested in such as energy and
infrastructure. Before launching his
fund, he worked at FTX during the Sam
Bankman Freed era. He later joined Open
AI where he became wellknown for his
views on AGI and AI acceleration. He's
also engaged to the chief of staff to
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodi, which means
that he is connected to some of the most
influential people building frontier AI
systems today. This sort of gives me
like a Nancy Pelosi feeling if you know
what I mean. So, let's look at some of
the positions and discuss them because I
think there's a lot for us to learn. And
again, if you want the full guide on his
holdings and what I believe to be also
the most interesting holdings for 2026,
just pause and download my free guide on
Leopal's holdings in summary of
situational awareness after I spent an
entire weekend, probably even more than
a weekend going through all of that 165
pages. So, let's get into Leopold's top
five biggest holdings in the portfolio
according to his recent 13F filing
because this is where the story really
gets interesting. Leopold Ashen Brener
is not just betting on software. He's
not just betting on one model. He's
betting on the physical supply chain
underneath AI. And the first stock is
Nebius, ticker symbol NBIS. And I'm not
surprised at this topic at all. This is
actually my personal topic. And I've
gotten into NBIS when it was sub $100
per share in my Discord community. You
guys know that I've talked about this
stock multiple times. Now, Nebius is
what people call a Neocloud. Basically,
it is trying to provide AI cloud
infrastructure to companies that need
huge amounts of data, huge amounts of
GPU commute, but either cannot get
enough capacity from Microsoft, Amazon
or Google and you know, Oracle or they
do not want to be fully dependent on
them which is really interesting and
provides a massive opportunity for
Nebus. So, here's why this matters. If
AI demand keeps growing then compute
becomes basically oil. Everybody needs
it. People are going to fight for it.
And the companies that can secure GPUs,
data centers, power, and customers all
at the same time can become extremely
valuable. Nebas became much more
important recently because it is no
longer just a story stock. It now has
massive customer validation. The big
headline that really solidified it for
investors with Nebius is the Microsoft
contract that was basically
multi-billions of dollars. That was an
AI infrastructure deal with Nebus. And
then actually what happened after that
multi-billion dollar AI contract was
that Meta became part of the story as
well. So then investors really start to
realize that hey you know kind of wait a
second here. This is not really a tiny
cloud company. This is actually landing
the type of customers that prove the
demand is real and this company very
well may make investors very wealthy. So
the biggest reason investors are excited
is simple. Nebus looks like it could
become one of the main independent AI
cloud providers in the world. And the
reason that matters is because the
hyperscalers are really capacity
constraint. Microsoft is trying to get
more capacity. They really need it. And
the wild part is they just can't really
get it. So when a company as big as
Microsoft has to go outside and sign
deals with companies like Nebius, you
really understand as an investor that
this bottleneck is real. And this
company has a big chance to just make a
bunch of revenue off of hyperscalers. So
really that money flowing downstream
from a hyperscalers, this is where
Nebius is really just profiting. They're
basically making handover fist income.
So they're basically taking advantage of
this capacity constraint. So you know a
lot of skeptics right now are saying
that you know yes we have demand today
but you know how about tomorrow right?
How about 2030? Will this demand go
away? And of course there is a real risk
you know for Nebas as well as every
single Neocloud company that yeah maybe
there is not going to be demand. However
I just think that's unrealistic. You
know the the compounding demands that
we're going to have in the future is
going to greatly surpass the supply. But
if supply catches up or GPU rental
prices fall down, this can be a very,
you know, kind of risky company. And
it's really interesting because
Leopold's biggest position is Nebius. So
it makes me think, what does he know
that we don't, right? You know, he's
engaged to Anthropic CEO. You know, he's
had a stint at Open AI. This guy has
outperformed everyone. I mean, at 24
years old, this guy's, you know,
ridiculously rich. He's stupid rich. So,
you know, for me, when I look at his
biggest position, and I've been in it
since $100 per share and actually subbed
that, got my Discord community into it.
I really think there's a long runway
here. I think this is going to be some
sustainable growth in the next three to
10 years. And because there's very few
global AI infrastructure platforms
outside of the big four cloud companies,
Nebius really has a very good
opportunity. I also really like Nebas's
management. The CEO Arcadi Volish, this
guy created Yandex. He was one of the
founders. And this is really important
because um that technology company that
he you know built in Russia he was
basically building search maps machine
learning cloud infrastructure as you
know as the creator there and CEO and
everything. He is very good at large
engineering organizations and I think
that this experience is going to make
Nebius a ton of money and that
background really matters because Nebus
is not just really trying to rent GPUs
bigger vision that they have right this
is what I actually think they can
fulfill on this vision and this is why
Mr. Leopold Ashenberger has this company
is their big vision is to build a full
stack AI cloud. That means physical data
centers, GPUs, cloud software, developer
tools, and eventually higher margin
services layered on top of all that. So,
you know, I almost can't even fathom the
runway that they have in front of them,
right? This stock was sub 100 when I was
looking at it. I'm like, okay, I think
this is going to be a $200 stock. It
surpassed that. It surpassed that much
faster than what I thought. Right? So
the risk that I took has really paid off
for me and uh my discord community is
really happy and I plan to continue to
hold this and kind of leopald is kind of
confirming my own research that I did.
So now I was looking into his kind of
thought process on AI and how he thinks
AGI is going to be here with us in 2027
which is only 6 months away. I'm very
excited to see what's possible with this
stock. Now there is some competitors to
Nebia. So you know they compete with
Coree. I ran is a competitor, Crusoe,
Oracle Cloud and obviously the big big
giants right AWS, Google Cloud. So, and
Microsoft Azure as well. So, you know, I
think that there is a lot of competition
out there. But, you know, look, if you
compare the giants, Nebius is very
nimble. You know, being nimble is
actually a good thing. When you're a
smaller company, you can get things done
a lot faster and a lot more efficiently.
Honestly, you can get things done
faster. There's not the whole chain of
command as much. You have a huge
company, right? So, it does not have to
really support every type of enterprise
cloud workload out there. It doesn't
have to really directly directly
compete. Can actually specialize in, you
know, AI infrastructure. So if you
compare that to the Giants, you know,
they can be more specialized, which
means that they can have more secure
revenue and consistent revenue in the
future. Now, if you look at their
balance sheet, it's it's not as strong.
So I guess what Leopold really likes
about the company is it's higher risk,
higher reward. And obviously, he knows
something that I don't know. I bullish
on the stock myself, but you know, he
has a, you know, pretty big position
size on it. So again, you can download
his holdings. You can see kind of his
reasoning for it and and also my
reasoning. You can kind of compare and
make your own conclusion here. But Neb's
here looks really attractive. I can see
one of the main reasons he likely has it
is that his bet on AI compute demand. He
thinks that it's going to grow so fast
that the pie is probably just going to
dramatically get bigger. So Nebius
captures the overflow and specialized
workloads that the hyperscalers cannot
serve fast enough. And guess what? You
know likely what the crazy part is if AI
compute demand keeps compounding, Nebius
could become one of the most important
public cloud infrastructure companies in
the world. Not because it beats
Microsoft, but because even Microsoft
needs companies like Nebius. So what
Leopold's doing here is he's really
playing into the ecosystem and looking
at downstream what companies are going
to be benefiting from this AI trend,
right? Not just the chip companies like
Nvidia, but kind of more downstream who
is benefiting. And compared to bigger
companies like AWS, AWS is the better
business today, but Nebius might be
better positioned for specific
bottlenecks of new AI capacity because
its entire company is built around one
single problem. So is the company cheap
right now? I don't think so. I think a
big part of Leopal's holdings and his
fund did so well. Part of it is Nebius,
but he also has a lot of smart plays,
which we're going to cover in this
video. But I want to look at something
called asymmetric upside, right? I want
to kind of play around here and go into
the idea of what if this is super early.
What if we're super early in the innings
of Nebia stock or just general in AI?
So, let's let's focus on Nebia stock. If
Nebia stock went from 250 to a,000, is
that possible? What could even, you
know, get it to that point? Well, what
could make it a monster winner is
actually very simple. more hyperscaler
deals, more AI lab deals, faster
capacity deployment, and proof that this
is not just revenue growth, but actually
profitable revenue growth. Right?
There's one thing that's revenue growth
and you're losing money, and there's
another thing where you're making
revenue, and that's actually coming down
into your cash flow, your income
statement. You're not negative cash
flow, you're positive cash flow. So, the
next major catalyst is really new
contracts announcements, which I can't
predict. I don't have a crystal ball,
but apparently there is something here
for investors to really look deeper
into. So updates on power capacity, data
center buildouts, customer concentration
is really important and whether Nebius
can show operating leverage as revenue
continues to scale. Now the second stock
that Leopold has is Bloom Energy. So
ticker symbol BE and this one is really
fascinating because it's not really a
traditional AI stock at all. Bloom
Energy does not make GPUs. It does not
build AI models. Well, it does not run a
chatbot. Bloom makes fuel cell systems
that can generate power on site. And
that might sound boring until you
understand one important thing. The
biggest bottleneck in AI, entire AI
might not be chips. Right now, it might
seem like chips are really important,
but it's not going to be chips forever.
The real bottleneck is likely
electricity power. How much electricity
can AI data centers and all these
demands actually consume? It's enormous.
And the bottleneck is clearly
electricity. So because AI data centers
are basically giant electricity eating
machines and that's kind of unfortunate
for the environment and other things but
here as investors you know financially
they are electricity eating machines and
the economy GDP governments politicians
etc they want to expand this technology
right so if you look at the bottleneck
the grid they cannot move fast enough
you cannot have really enough land to
power these big huge energy costs so at
the end of the day you can have
customers you can have tons of demand
you can have tons of chips but if you
cannot get enough energy if you If you
cannot get enough power, none of that
really matters. That is why Bloom is
really important right now. So, I see
why Leopold has this as a major position
in his fund. Bloom is becoming a way for
AI data centers to bring their own
power. And recently, the story changed
because Bloom is starting to get real
data center traction. We've seen
partnerships and projects tied to
companies like Cororeweave, Oracle,
Brookfield, and Nebus. The stock has
moved like investors just suddenly
realized, wait, power is not a side
issue. Power is the main issue. Power is
the AI trade. The biggest reason
investors are excited is that Bloom
could become one of the key solutions
for time to power. That phrase matters.
Not just cheap power, not just clean
power, which matters. Time to power. If
a company can get a data center running
one or two years faster because it uses
on-site power instead of waiting, you
know, forever for a grid upgrade. That
is incredibly valuable. Time is money.
You might not make a lot of money on you
know a small amount of capital but a
data center it can be you know hundred
million plus dollars right so when you
have one or two years that's faster and
you put an interest rate on that like
15% that's tens of millions of dollars
right not to mention cash flows come
sooner so cash today is more valuable
than cash tomorrow so the biggest reason
investors are skeptical though is also
kind of obvious fuel cells have
disappointed investors before and the
industry has had some you know hype
cycles the technology can be very
expensive and a lot Bloom systems still
depend on natural gas. And even if fuel
cells are cleaner than certain
alternatives, this is not some magical
carbon-f free solution in every case. So
when I was looking into Bloom Energy, I
know it's very popular in terms of
retail investors right now. But really
to me there is also a scale question. It
is one thing to power a smaller site.
It's another thing to power enormous AI
campuses that need hundreds of megawatts
or even gigawatts over time. So the bull
case is that Bloom Energy becomes the
picks and shovels power provider for AI
data centers and that very well may
happen to some degree and the CEO Sidar
is huge part of the story. His
background is actually amazing. So
before Bloom he worked in technology
connected to producing oxygen on Mars.
He was a professor. He worked with NASA
and then he co-founded Bloom to bring
fuel cell power generation to basically
worldwide. So I think that you know
great mission, great background. I
really like to look into CEOs. That's
very important. So, I think that Bloom
Energy is a really interesting pick
within Leopold's portfolio. And I'm
considering I'm going to do some further
research into how much of a position
size I want to enter into my portfolio.
So, this is really a great founder
market fit story. That's also what I
like about Bloom because Bloom is not
some company that pivoted into AI last
week. It has spent decades building a
very specific energy technology. AI just
created the urgency that they finally
make the business model work at scale.
So, what has to go right here for Bloom
Energy? And you know, why is Leopold
likely holding the stock? Well, data
centers need to keep demand fast,
reliable, and on-site power. Bloom needs
to prove it can deploy at a much larger
scale. Margins need to hold up and
customers need to decide that paying for
Bloom systems is worth it because
alternative is waiting too long for grid
power. So, let's talk about kind of what
could go wrong. But one of my goals here
at Invest with Henry in what I do in my
one-on-one coaching is, you know, it's
pretty simple to look at option
strategies. It's pretty simple to really
understand which companies could
benefit, but it's another thing to
really understand risk management, how
much to have in certain positions, when
to cut positions and saving money is
just as important as making money. So,
that's really what I focus on. So,
here's one of the things that I looked
into with Bloom and what could go wrong.
And there's kind of a lot. Natural gas
turbines could be cheaper. Utilities
could speed up grid connections. Smaller
modular nuclear could become a long-term
competitor. Battery storage could
improve. Local communities could still
push back. And if Bloom cannot deliver
at scale customers that really needed to
be at bigger scales, well, the story
could break down. So, the market might
be missing that Bloom is not only
competing on energy cost, it is also
competing on speed, which right now does
look very positive. So overall I see
again Leopold has this as a major play
because it has a lot of volatility which
means that it may have asymmetric
upside. If a data center owner can
generate revenue sooner because Bloom
helps the site organize and get energy
faster than the economics are not just
about cents per kilowatt hour. They're
also about time. So there's two really
big factors working here. The biggest
competitors are GE, Vernova, Seammen's
Energy, Caterpillar, Cummins, uh,
Dorsson Fuel Cell, Plug Power, U,
Ballard, and there is other competitors.
Bloom's advantage is modular on-site
deployment. So, it can be installed
closer to the load. It can reduce
dependency on the grid cues, and it can
be positioned as a lower water, lower
emission alternative to some traditional
power setups. So, what does Leopold see
here? What would make Bloom a monster
winner? What would make this opportunity
so big that can help him go from 1
billion to 5.5 billion once? Can he, you
know, basically turn his fund from 5.5
billion now into 20 billion, right? How
does he do that again? And why is he
looking at Bloom? Well, if on-site power
becomes standard for AI campuses and
Bloom becomes one of the default
vendors, that would turn Bloom from a
clean energy turnaround story into a
core AI infrastructure company. Simple
as that. And that asymmetric upside
would yield investors a very, very
handsome profit. Now the third stock
that Leopold has is SanDisk. So ticker
symbol SNDK. And this might be the most
misunderstood one on the entire list
because when people think about AI
chips, they think about Nvidia GPUs.
Then maybe they think about AMD. Maybe
then they think about Broadcom or custom
AI chips. AI creates a ridiculous amount
of data. training data, model
checkpoints, inference logs, vector
databases, agent memory, synthetic data,
video data as well, physical AI data,
robotics data, all of that has to be
stored somewhere, right? And Sandesk is
a major player in NAND, flash memory,
and SSDs. This stock is important right
now because AI is turning storage from a
boring commodity into a potential very
big bottleneck. And that is huge. Data
has to be stored somewhere. For years,
memory and storage were cyclical
businesses. Prices go up, companies
overbuild supply, then prices crash, and
everybody hates the stock all over
again. Very big volatility. But the bull
case now is that AI demand is so large
that the cycle could last a lot longer
than normal. What changed recently is
the earnings power as well. This is
something that I have caught on to as a
potential opportunity. Sandesk has been
putting up numbers that look almost
ridiculous compared to where the stock
came publicly after the Western Digital
spin-off. Revenue exploded, earnings
exploded, and data center demand
exploded as well. And now management is
talking about longerterm customer
commitments, not just short-term spot
prices. This is what investors are
excited about. So, could Leopold know or
have some type of information that could
mean that SanDisk has more of these
relationships that are going to build
and more interesting announcements
ahead? Well, looking into SanDisk, they
are not just excited that NAND prices
are up. They're excited that, you know,
overall the company might become a more
strategic supplier to hyperscalers and
AI infrastructure companies. But again,
I'm going to give you both sides of the
story. The skeptics's case is strong,
too. Memory is still memory. When price
is good, everybody thinks it's
structural. When supply comes online,
prices roll over, margins collapse, and
people remember why these stocks used to
trade at low multiples, then the stock
comes crashing down. What I think right
now is probably Leopold has really good
timing. Of course, this guy has a lot of
connections. He knows a lot about, you
know, the companies that he's investing
in and he likely has some type of
advantaged information. He has
connections, let's say. I'm not sure.
This is just my thoughts and opinions.
So, when I look at Sandis as a company,
the stock is up a lot, right? But I
still actually think it could be
attractive here. So the bullc case for
SanDisk over the next three to five
years is that nan flash becomes a
critical layer of AI infrastructure
especially as inference and agentic AI
create more persistent storage needs. So
that is the key phrase persistent
storage. Training a model is one thing
but if AI agents are constantly working
creating files referencing history
searching databases and generating media
then storage demand could grow in way
more capacity and people right now are
underestimating that. And I suspect that
to be true because even, you know, I was
using Chai GPT and I asked it to create
an image. Right now, I feel like they're
just creating so many images and that's
just only really the beginning. Right
now, there's just so much image
generation and that's just the
beginning, right? There's going to be
more video generation and more demands
from that side as well. So, looking at
the management, the CEO is David Goker.
He uh previously ran Western Digital and
before that he was a senior executive at
Cisco. And that matters because SanDisk
is not just a consumer memory card
company anymore. it needs to sell into
enterprise hyperscalers and data center
customers. So, Geoeckler has enterprise
technology background for that.
Management's recent capital allocation
also matters because SanDisks announced
a major buyback after huge earnings
growth. And again, you guys know that on
this channel I look at opportunity
within stocks. I use options to generate
income on those stocks. I use sometimes
simple strategies and other times I've
used growth strategies within my
personal portfolio that I cover on my
Discord community. And one kind of topic
that I like to look at is major buybacks
because that's something that is
basically what I call or that is called
financial engineering. A company is
financial engineering by buying back
their shares and basically betting on
themselves, right? So that could be
really smart if a company believes the
market is still undervalued because
there's less shares outstanding. So
aggressive buybacks create less
outstanding shares, making the shares
that are outstanding more valuable. The
most important number investors need to
know is revenue growth, data center
revenue growth, nan pricing, gross
margin, customer commitment, and free
cash flow of the company. Of course,
Leopalt has likely done all of this
research and he sees something very
valuable in the company. I've done my
own research, and I think SanDesk right
now is trading at fair value. The stock
is already up a lot. So the next
catalyst that would have to bring the
stock higher would have to be some type
of contract renegotiation more you know
opportunities in the market or simply
their biggest competitors such as
Samsung Western Digital having a slip up
somewhere. So compared to those
companies SanDisk has a cleaner NAND and
flash storage story which is what I
think is the major bullcase here. Now
the fourth stock within Leopold's fund
is cororeweave ticker symbol CRWV.
This is the name that probably most
people know best within this group.
Cororeweave is one of the original
Neocloud winners. It started as a crypto
mining operation pivoting into GPU cloud
and they have become very tight, very
buddy buddy with Nvidia. It became one
of the most important AI infrastructure
companies almost overnight through that
relationship. Right? When you have a
good relationship with Nvidia, the
market understands that there's a lot of
cash flow. There's a lot of money that's
about to be flowing to that business
that has, you know, partnered up or have
has a relationship with Nvidia. And the
reason why cororeweave matters right now
and is likely within Leopaul's holdings
is that is basically the public market
test case for the entire AI cloud
thesis. If coreweave works then
investors will believe more in Nebus,
Iran and other neo clouds because core
is pretty much the leader within this
right. If coreweave breaks then the
whole group probably gets questioned as
well which is also really valuable
because those companies could lag
coreweave when coreweave has earnings
when they have an announcement or news
since they are pretty much the leader
then their stock jumps up significantly.
So potentially there could be something
really big on the horizon for coreweave
the biggest reason investors are excited
is the backlog. So when I looked at the
backlog is really huge. Cororeweave has
signed massive deals with some of the
biggest AI customers in the entire
world. Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft
Anthropic. So these are not small
customers. These are the exact customers
that everybody wants. These customers
have the biggest wallets. They have the
biggest chin wallets and they're
spending ton of the money that they
have. So this really proves demand and I
actually believe demand is likely to
become stronger and that's likely why
Cororeweave is a very interesting play
right now. The biggest reason investors
are skeptical is really the balance
sheet. Coreweave is spending enormous
amounts of money to build
infrastructure, has very heavy debt, it
has lease obligations, it has huge
interest expenses, and it needs to keep
executing perfectly because the company
is basically sprinting and they have
really heavy, you know, 25 30 lb weight
vest on top of them. So, you know, it
it's kind of like an uphill battle right
now, but I I see opportunity within the
company and within the free guide that I
have in the description, I talk more
about why I think this play is
interesting, but it's less favorable
compared to the next stock on our list.
Now, the fifth largest holdings in
Leopold's portfolio, which I also
personally love and I have in my
portfolio, is Iren. This one might be
the highest risk, highest chaos name in
the group. Iran used to be known as a
Bitcoin mining company. And that matters
because Bitcoin miners are basically
power infrastructure companies disguised
as crypto companies. They already know
how to find cheap power. They know how
to build data centers and they know how
to run highdensity compute. And they
already have sites where electricity is
the main input. Then AI showed up and
completely changed the unit economics of
everything. Economically, Iran decided
to shift and because the question now
became instead of using all this power
for Bitcoin mining, can we use it for AI
compute? And that's where Iran found a
gold mine because IN signed major AI
cloud deals with Microsoft and Nvidia.
This company really became a hot stock
and this is a company that I have
invested in when it was $30 per share. I
think this makes a lot of sense in Leo
Paul's portfolio. It is one thing for a
former Bitcoin miner to say we're
pivoting to AI. Everyone can just say
that. It's another thing to have
Microsoft and Nvidia involved within
your pivot. That's what gives the story
a lot of credibility. The biggest reason
investors are excited is Iron's power
portfolio. In AI infrastructure, power
is the new land grab. If Iran has
secured large amounts of power in places
like Texas and can turn that into AI
data center capacity, then the company
could be sitting on extremely valuable
infrastructure. The CEO structure is
also interesting because IN is run by
brothers Daniel Roberts and Will Roberts
as co-CEOs. Daniel Roberts has a finance
and infrastructure style background
including time at McGuire and that
matters because this is now a capital
market and infrastructure execution
story. Management is making aggressive
capital allocation decisions. Now I ran
they are basically trying to convert a
power first asset base into a GPU cloud
business as quickly as possible. That
could be really brilliant but it could
also be too much too fast. So there's
something that Leopold sees within this
company that is likely a quick catalyst
within Iran's future. The most important
numbers to me is that investors need to
know are contracted power, energized
power, GPU count, AI cloud revenue run
rate. A lot of this data I'm getting
through reading reports that IN has
through their management and their
investor relations. Upon doing my own
research, the bookcase for me in the
next 3 to 10 years is that I think IN
could be a $100 stock within probably 12
to 18 months. I can see what LEO
policies within this company. And in
other words, IN does not really need to
become an Amazon Web Services of the
future. Doesn't really need to do that.
It needs to take power, land,
facilities, and chips and turn that into
contracted AI compute faster than its
competitors. So, this is a really
interesting holding that Leopold has,
and I have this stock in my own
portfolio. I read might actually be one
of the most leveraged public bets on the
idea that power access is more valuable
than cloud brand in the next phase of AI
infrastructure. So, is this stock cheap
right now? Well, not on the current
financials, on current revenue and
losses, this is really speculative. But
on future contracted AI revenue and
power capacity, bulls can argue the
market is still not fully valuing what
IN could become if it executes. And if
they execute over the next 12 months,
then very well Iran can be a hundred
plus dollar stock per share. Especially
if Microsoft and Nvidia are not one-off
deals. If those deals become proof that
Iran can repeatedly convert power sites
into AI cloud revenue, then the company
would be much more valuable. But if the
deals are difficult to execute or
margins disappoint or the business needs
too much capital, then this could be a
hard point. Of course, Leopold trades
stocks. He's not always holding these
stocks for long periods of time. So, a
lot could change and I'm going to be
following his 13F filings. If you get
the free guide in my description and you
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able to update you and send you further
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holdings when I look at his 13F filings.
So, when I look at all five of these
names together, I think that the theme
becomes very clear. Nebius is the AI
cloud platform bet. Bloom Energy is the
power bottleneck bet. Sandesk is the
storage bottleneck bet. Coreweave is the
proven Neocloud scale bet. And IN is the
power to compute conversion bet. And
this is why the title is forget Nvidia.
Not because Nvidia doesn't matter.
Nvidia absolutely matters. But because
by the time everybody knows Nvidia
matters, some of the most interesting
opportunities may be in the companies
trying to solve the next order of
problems that Nvidia success creates.
More GPUs create more power demand. More
power demand creates more pressure on
the grid. More AI workloads create more
storage demand. More storage demand
creates memory shortages. And more AI
labs create more demand for specialized
cloud capacity. And that's the basket
that Leo Paul appears to be betting on.
He's not just betting on AI models. He's
betting on the industrialization of AI.
And now this is the real story. The risk
is that the entire group is priced for a
lot of success. These are not sleepy
value stocks. These are volatile,
capital inensive, high execution names.
If AI infrastructure spending slows
down, these stocks can fall very hard.
If financing conditions tighten, these
stocks can fall very hard. However, if
there's more contracts, if there's more
AI demand, and if the compounding
continues and this AI revolution that
we're in continues to build out, these
companies can become very large winners.
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The video discusses the investment strategy of 24-year-old investor Leopold Aschenbrenner, whose fund grew from $1 billion to over $5 billion by focusing on 'situational awareness' and the industrialization of AI. Rather than solely betting on chip manufacturers like Nvidia, Aschenbrenner focuses on the downstream 'picks and shovels' infrastructure required to support AGI, including AI cloud providers, power solutions, and data storage.
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