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Do you want to know which AI stocks are

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going to run next and make investors

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life-changing money? Well, there is an

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investor named Leopold Ashen Benner.

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He's 24 years old, and last year he was

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managing $1 billion, and he was in

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charge of investing in AI, New Frontier,

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emerging technologies. Today, that $1

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billion is now worth over $5 billion.

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This guy is younger than me by a large

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margin, and he just went on a run that

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made more money than any fund in the

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world of AI. The fact that AI right now

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is a very competitive market means that

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the competition is stiff. So clearly

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this guy Leopold is doing something

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different than everyone else. So I

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looked into his 13F filing on all his

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positions and I want to share with you

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my findings today. Some of these stocks

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I have already caught on to myself

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before doing the digging and other

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stocks really shocked me and they were

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new to me. You can see his portfolio

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performance in Q1 2025. The value was

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$257 million of his fund. In Q2, he

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surpassed 600 million. And as you see,

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each and every single quarter, his fund

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has gained enormous value, sitting at

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over $4 billion today in Q2 2026. This

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guy is young and on a generational run,

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but after doing my research, this isn't

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your traditional investing story.

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Doesn't seem like luck. He's done a

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major recent pivot, and it's essentially

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following his methodology, which he

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listed in his 165page thesis called

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situational awareness. You can Google it

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or you can download my free guide that I

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put summarizing his work in which stocks

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I personally believe are the ones to

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hold for the next 12 months in the

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description. He basically predicts we

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are going to reach AGI by 2027. In this

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massive essay, he writes a story of how

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he sees the AI revolution unfolding. He

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was early on the chips play and now he's

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predicting a pivot into infrastructure.

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In fact, he recently dumped $300 million

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of Nvidia. He dumped other stocks. many

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of you also might be holding such as

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Micron, Broadcom, TSMC, and many others.

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What's risky but likely paid off for

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Leopalt is he actually had Nvidia put

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options, meaning he purchased puts

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betting that Nvidia would fall and

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Nvidia did have a nose dive from $195

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per share to 165 in late February from

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when he likely had the position open in

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his filings. What stood out to me is his

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approach is very much picks and shovels

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play. He has shifted his focus to the

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major constraint that investors haven't

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really invested in such as energy and

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infrastructure. Before launching his

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fund, he worked at FTX during the Sam

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Bankman Freed era. He later joined Open

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AI where he became wellknown for his

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views on AGI and AI acceleration. He's

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also engaged to the chief of staff to

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodi, which means

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that he is connected to some of the most

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influential people building frontier AI

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systems today. This sort of gives me

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like a Nancy Pelosi feeling if you know

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what I mean. So, let's look at some of

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the positions and discuss them because I

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think there's a lot for us to learn. And

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again, if you want the full guide on his

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holdings and what I believe to be also

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the most interesting holdings for 2026,

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just pause and download my free guide on

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Leopal's holdings in summary of

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situational awareness after I spent an

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entire weekend, probably even more than

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a weekend going through all of that 165

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pages. So, let's get into Leopold's top

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five biggest holdings in the portfolio

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according to his recent 13F filing

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because this is where the story really

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gets interesting. Leopold Ashen Brener

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is not just betting on software. He's

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not just betting on one model. He's

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betting on the physical supply chain

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underneath AI. And the first stock is

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Nebius, ticker symbol NBIS. And I'm not

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surprised at this topic at all. This is

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actually my personal topic. And I've

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gotten into NBIS when it was sub $100

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per share in my Discord community. You

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guys know that I've talked about this

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stock multiple times. Now, Nebius is

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what people call a Neocloud. Basically,

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it is trying to provide AI cloud

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infrastructure to companies that need

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huge amounts of data, huge amounts of

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GPU commute, but either cannot get

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enough capacity from Microsoft, Amazon

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or Google and you know, Oracle or they

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do not want to be fully dependent on

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them which is really interesting and

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provides a massive opportunity for

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Nebus. So, here's why this matters. If

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AI demand keeps growing then compute

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becomes basically oil. Everybody needs

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it. People are going to fight for it.

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And the companies that can secure GPUs,

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data centers, power, and customers all

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at the same time can become extremely

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valuable. Nebas became much more

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important recently because it is no

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longer just a story stock. It now has

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massive customer validation. The big

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headline that really solidified it for

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investors with Nebius is the Microsoft

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contract that was basically

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multi-billions of dollars. That was an

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AI infrastructure deal with Nebus. And

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then actually what happened after that

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multi-billion dollar AI contract was

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that Meta became part of the story as

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well. So then investors really start to

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realize that hey you know kind of wait a

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second here. This is not really a tiny

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cloud company. This is actually landing

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the type of customers that prove the

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demand is real and this company very

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well may make investors very wealthy. So

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the biggest reason investors are excited

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is simple. Nebus looks like it could

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become one of the main independent AI

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cloud providers in the world. And the

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reason that matters is because the

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hyperscalers are really capacity

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constraint. Microsoft is trying to get

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more capacity. They really need it. And

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the wild part is they just can't really

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get it. So when a company as big as

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Microsoft has to go outside and sign

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deals with companies like Nebius, you

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really understand as an investor that

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this bottleneck is real. And this

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company has a big chance to just make a

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bunch of revenue off of hyperscalers. So

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really that money flowing downstream

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from a hyperscalers, this is where

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Nebius is really just profiting. They're

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basically making handover fist income.

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So they're basically taking advantage of

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this capacity constraint. So you know a

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lot of skeptics right now are saying

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that you know yes we have demand today

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but you know how about tomorrow right?

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How about 2030? Will this demand go

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away? And of course there is a real risk

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you know for Nebas as well as every

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single Neocloud company that yeah maybe

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there is not going to be demand. However

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I just think that's unrealistic. You

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know the the compounding demands that

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we're going to have in the future is

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going to greatly surpass the supply. But

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if supply catches up or GPU rental

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prices fall down, this can be a very,

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you know, kind of risky company. And

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it's really interesting because

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Leopold's biggest position is Nebius. So

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it makes me think, what does he know

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that we don't, right? You know, he's

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engaged to Anthropic CEO. You know, he's

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had a stint at Open AI. This guy has

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outperformed everyone. I mean, at 24

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years old, this guy's, you know,

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ridiculously rich. He's stupid rich. So,

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you know, for me, when I look at his

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biggest position, and I've been in it

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since $100 per share and actually subbed

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that, got my Discord community into it.

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I really think there's a long runway

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here. I think this is going to be some

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sustainable growth in the next three to

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10 years. And because there's very few

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global AI infrastructure platforms

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outside of the big four cloud companies,

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Nebius really has a very good

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opportunity. I also really like Nebas's

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management. The CEO Arcadi Volish, this

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guy created Yandex. He was one of the

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founders. And this is really important

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because um that technology company that

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he you know built in Russia he was

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basically building search maps machine

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learning cloud infrastructure as you

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know as the creator there and CEO and

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everything. He is very good at large

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engineering organizations and I think

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that this experience is going to make

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Nebius a ton of money and that

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background really matters because Nebus

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is not just really trying to rent GPUs

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bigger vision that they have right this

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is what I actually think they can

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fulfill on this vision and this is why

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Mr. Leopold Ashenberger has this company

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is their big vision is to build a full

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stack AI cloud. That means physical data

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centers, GPUs, cloud software, developer

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tools, and eventually higher margin

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services layered on top of all that. So,

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you know, I almost can't even fathom the

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runway that they have in front of them,

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right? This stock was sub 100 when I was

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looking at it. I'm like, okay, I think

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this is going to be a $200 stock. It

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surpassed that. It surpassed that much

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faster than what I thought. Right? So

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the risk that I took has really paid off

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for me and uh my discord community is

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really happy and I plan to continue to

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hold this and kind of leopald is kind of

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confirming my own research that I did.

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So now I was looking into his kind of

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thought process on AI and how he thinks

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AGI is going to be here with us in 2027

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which is only 6 months away. I'm very

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excited to see what's possible with this

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stock. Now there is some competitors to

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Nebia. So you know they compete with

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Coree. I ran is a competitor, Crusoe,

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Oracle Cloud and obviously the big big

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giants right AWS, Google Cloud. So, and

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Microsoft Azure as well. So, you know, I

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think that there is a lot of competition

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out there. But, you know, look, if you

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compare the giants, Nebius is very

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nimble. You know, being nimble is

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actually a good thing. When you're a

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smaller company, you can get things done

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a lot faster and a lot more efficiently.

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Honestly, you can get things done

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faster. There's not the whole chain of

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command as much. You have a huge

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company, right? So, it does not have to

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really support every type of enterprise

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cloud workload out there. It doesn't

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have to really directly directly

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compete. Can actually specialize in, you

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know, AI infrastructure. So if you

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compare that to the Giants, you know,

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they can be more specialized, which

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means that they can have more secure

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revenue and consistent revenue in the

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future. Now, if you look at their

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balance sheet, it's it's not as strong.

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So I guess what Leopold really likes

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about the company is it's higher risk,

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higher reward. And obviously, he knows

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something that I don't know. I bullish

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on the stock myself, but you know, he

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has a, you know, pretty big position

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size on it. So again, you can download

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his holdings. You can see kind of his

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reasoning for it and and also my

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reasoning. You can kind of compare and

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make your own conclusion here. But Neb's

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here looks really attractive. I can see

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one of the main reasons he likely has it

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is that his bet on AI compute demand. He

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thinks that it's going to grow so fast

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that the pie is probably just going to

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dramatically get bigger. So Nebius

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captures the overflow and specialized

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workloads that the hyperscalers cannot

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serve fast enough. And guess what? You

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know likely what the crazy part is if AI

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compute demand keeps compounding, Nebius

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could become one of the most important

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public cloud infrastructure companies in

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the world. Not because it beats

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Microsoft, but because even Microsoft

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needs companies like Nebius. So what

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Leopold's doing here is he's really

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playing into the ecosystem and looking

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at downstream what companies are going

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to be benefiting from this AI trend,

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right? Not just the chip companies like

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Nvidia, but kind of more downstream who

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is benefiting. And compared to bigger

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companies like AWS, AWS is the better

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business today, but Nebius might be

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better positioned for specific

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bottlenecks of new AI capacity because

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its entire company is built around one

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single problem. So is the company cheap

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right now? I don't think so. I think a

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big part of Leopal's holdings and his

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fund did so well. Part of it is Nebius,

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but he also has a lot of smart plays,

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which we're going to cover in this

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video. But I want to look at something

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called asymmetric upside, right? I want

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to kind of play around here and go into

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the idea of what if this is super early.

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What if we're super early in the innings

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of Nebia stock or just general in AI?

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So, let's let's focus on Nebia stock. If

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Nebia stock went from 250 to a,000, is

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that possible? What could even, you

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know, get it to that point? Well, what

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could make it a monster winner is

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actually very simple. more hyperscaler

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deals, more AI lab deals, faster

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capacity deployment, and proof that this

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is not just revenue growth, but actually

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profitable revenue growth. Right?

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There's one thing that's revenue growth

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and you're losing money, and there's

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another thing where you're making

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revenue, and that's actually coming down

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into your cash flow, your income

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statement. You're not negative cash

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flow, you're positive cash flow. So, the

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next major catalyst is really new

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contracts announcements, which I can't

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predict. I don't have a crystal ball,

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but apparently there is something here

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for investors to really look deeper

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into. So updates on power capacity, data

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center buildouts, customer concentration

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is really important and whether Nebius

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can show operating leverage as revenue

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continues to scale. Now the second stock

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that Leopold has is Bloom Energy. So

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ticker symbol BE and this one is really

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fascinating because it's not really a

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traditional AI stock at all. Bloom

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Energy does not make GPUs. It does not

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build AI models. Well, it does not run a

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chatbot. Bloom makes fuel cell systems

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that can generate power on site. And

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that might sound boring until you

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understand one important thing. The

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biggest bottleneck in AI, entire AI

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might not be chips. Right now, it might

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seem like chips are really important,

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but it's not going to be chips forever.

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The real bottleneck is likely

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electricity power. How much electricity

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can AI data centers and all these

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demands actually consume? It's enormous.

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And the bottleneck is clearly

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electricity. So because AI data centers

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are basically giant electricity eating

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machines and that's kind of unfortunate

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for the environment and other things but

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here as investors you know financially

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they are electricity eating machines and

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the economy GDP governments politicians

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etc they want to expand this technology

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right so if you look at the bottleneck

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the grid they cannot move fast enough

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you cannot have really enough land to

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power these big huge energy costs so at

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the end of the day you can have

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customers you can have tons of demand

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you can have tons of chips but if you

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cannot get enough energy if you If you

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cannot get enough power, none of that

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really matters. That is why Bloom is

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really important right now. So, I see

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why Leopold has this as a major position

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in his fund. Bloom is becoming a way for

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AI data centers to bring their own

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power. And recently, the story changed

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because Bloom is starting to get real

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data center traction. We've seen

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partnerships and projects tied to

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companies like Cororeweave, Oracle,

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Brookfield, and Nebus. The stock has

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moved like investors just suddenly

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realized, wait, power is not a side

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issue. Power is the main issue. Power is

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the AI trade. The biggest reason

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investors are excited is that Bloom

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could become one of the key solutions

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for time to power. That phrase matters.

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Not just cheap power, not just clean

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power, which matters. Time to power. If

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a company can get a data center running

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one or two years faster because it uses

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on-site power instead of waiting, you

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know, forever for a grid upgrade. That

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is incredibly valuable. Time is money.

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You might not make a lot of money on you

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know a small amount of capital but a

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data center it can be you know hundred

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million plus dollars right so when you

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have one or two years that's faster and

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you put an interest rate on that like

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15% that's tens of millions of dollars

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right not to mention cash flows come

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sooner so cash today is more valuable

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than cash tomorrow so the biggest reason

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investors are skeptical though is also

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kind of obvious fuel cells have

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disappointed investors before and the

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industry has had some you know hype

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cycles the technology can be very

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expensive and a lot Bloom systems still

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depend on natural gas. And even if fuel

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cells are cleaner than certain

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alternatives, this is not some magical

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carbon-f free solution in every case. So

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when I was looking into Bloom Energy, I

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know it's very popular in terms of

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retail investors right now. But really

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to me there is also a scale question. It

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is one thing to power a smaller site.

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It's another thing to power enormous AI

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campuses that need hundreds of megawatts

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or even gigawatts over time. So the bull

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case is that Bloom Energy becomes the

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picks and shovels power provider for AI

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data centers and that very well may

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happen to some degree and the CEO Sidar

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is huge part of the story. His

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background is actually amazing. So

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before Bloom he worked in technology

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connected to producing oxygen on Mars.

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He was a professor. He worked with NASA

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and then he co-founded Bloom to bring

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fuel cell power generation to basically

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worldwide. So I think that you know

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great mission, great background. I

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really like to look into CEOs. That's

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very important. So, I think that Bloom

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Energy is a really interesting pick

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within Leopold's portfolio. And I'm

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considering I'm going to do some further

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research into how much of a position

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size I want to enter into my portfolio.

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So, this is really a great founder

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market fit story. That's also what I

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like about Bloom because Bloom is not

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some company that pivoted into AI last

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week. It has spent decades building a

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very specific energy technology. AI just

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created the urgency that they finally

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make the business model work at scale.

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So, what has to go right here for Bloom

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Energy? And you know, why is Leopold

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likely holding the stock? Well, data

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centers need to keep demand fast,

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reliable, and on-site power. Bloom needs

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to prove it can deploy at a much larger

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scale. Margins need to hold up and

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customers need to decide that paying for

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Bloom systems is worth it because

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alternative is waiting too long for grid

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power. So, let's talk about kind of what

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could go wrong. But one of my goals here

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at Invest with Henry in what I do in my

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one-on-one coaching is, you know, it's

15:36

pretty simple to look at option

15:38

strategies. It's pretty simple to really

15:39

understand which companies could

15:40

benefit, but it's another thing to

15:42

really understand risk management, how

15:43

much to have in certain positions, when

15:44

to cut positions and saving money is

15:47

just as important as making money. So,

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that's really what I focus on. So,

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here's one of the things that I looked

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into with Bloom and what could go wrong.

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And there's kind of a lot. Natural gas

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turbines could be cheaper. Utilities

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could speed up grid connections. Smaller

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modular nuclear could become a long-term

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competitor. Battery storage could

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improve. Local communities could still

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push back. And if Bloom cannot deliver

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at scale customers that really needed to

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be at bigger scales, well, the story

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could break down. So, the market might

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be missing that Bloom is not only

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competing on energy cost, it is also

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competing on speed, which right now does

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look very positive. So overall I see

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again Leopold has this as a major play

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because it has a lot of volatility which

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means that it may have asymmetric

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upside. If a data center owner can

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generate revenue sooner because Bloom

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helps the site organize and get energy

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faster than the economics are not just

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about cents per kilowatt hour. They're

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also about time. So there's two really

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big factors working here. The biggest

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competitors are GE, Vernova, Seammen's

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Energy, Caterpillar, Cummins, uh,

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Dorsson Fuel Cell, Plug Power, U,

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Ballard, and there is other competitors.

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Bloom's advantage is modular on-site

16:53

deployment. So, it can be installed

16:54

closer to the load. It can reduce

16:56

dependency on the grid cues, and it can

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be positioned as a lower water, lower

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emission alternative to some traditional

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power setups. So, what does Leopold see

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here? What would make Bloom a monster

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winner? What would make this opportunity

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so big that can help him go from 1

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billion to 5.5 billion once? Can he, you

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know, basically turn his fund from 5.5

17:15

billion now into 20 billion, right? How

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does he do that again? And why is he

17:19

looking at Bloom? Well, if on-site power

17:20

becomes standard for AI campuses and

17:22

Bloom becomes one of the default

17:24

vendors, that would turn Bloom from a

17:26

clean energy turnaround story into a

17:28

core AI infrastructure company. Simple

17:30

as that. And that asymmetric upside

17:32

would yield investors a very, very

17:34

handsome profit. Now the third stock

17:35

that Leopold has is SanDisk. So ticker

17:38

symbol SNDK. And this might be the most

17:41

misunderstood one on the entire list

17:43

because when people think about AI

17:45

chips, they think about Nvidia GPUs.

17:47

Then maybe they think about AMD. Maybe

17:50

then they think about Broadcom or custom

17:52

AI chips. AI creates a ridiculous amount

17:55

of data. training data, model

17:57

checkpoints, inference logs, vector

17:58

databases, agent memory, synthetic data,

18:01

video data as well, physical AI data,

18:04

robotics data, all of that has to be

18:06

stored somewhere, right? And Sandesk is

18:08

a major player in NAND, flash memory,

18:11

and SSDs. This stock is important right

18:14

now because AI is turning storage from a

18:16

boring commodity into a potential very

18:19

big bottleneck. And that is huge. Data

18:21

has to be stored somewhere. For years,

18:24

memory and storage were cyclical

18:25

businesses. Prices go up, companies

18:27

overbuild supply, then prices crash, and

18:30

everybody hates the stock all over

18:32

again. Very big volatility. But the bull

18:34

case now is that AI demand is so large

18:36

that the cycle could last a lot longer

18:39

than normal. What changed recently is

18:41

the earnings power as well. This is

18:43

something that I have caught on to as a

18:44

potential opportunity. Sandesk has been

18:46

putting up numbers that look almost

18:48

ridiculous compared to where the stock

18:50

came publicly after the Western Digital

18:52

spin-off. Revenue exploded, earnings

18:54

exploded, and data center demand

18:56

exploded as well. And now management is

18:58

talking about longerterm customer

19:00

commitments, not just short-term spot

19:02

prices. This is what investors are

19:04

excited about. So, could Leopold know or

19:06

have some type of information that could

19:07

mean that SanDisk has more of these

19:09

relationships that are going to build

19:11

and more interesting announcements

19:12

ahead? Well, looking into SanDisk, they

19:14

are not just excited that NAND prices

19:17

are up. They're excited that, you know,

19:18

overall the company might become a more

19:20

strategic supplier to hyperscalers and

19:22

AI infrastructure companies. But again,

19:25

I'm going to give you both sides of the

19:26

story. The skeptics's case is strong,

19:28

too. Memory is still memory. When price

19:31

is good, everybody thinks it's

19:32

structural. When supply comes online,

19:34

prices roll over, margins collapse, and

19:36

people remember why these stocks used to

19:38

trade at low multiples, then the stock

19:40

comes crashing down. What I think right

19:42

now is probably Leopold has really good

19:44

timing. Of course, this guy has a lot of

19:46

connections. He knows a lot about, you

19:48

know, the companies that he's investing

19:49

in and he likely has some type of

19:51

advantaged information. He has

19:53

connections, let's say. I'm not sure.

19:55

This is just my thoughts and opinions.

19:56

So, when I look at Sandis as a company,

19:58

the stock is up a lot, right? But I

20:00

still actually think it could be

20:01

attractive here. So the bullc case for

20:02

SanDisk over the next three to five

20:04

years is that nan flash becomes a

20:06

critical layer of AI infrastructure

20:08

especially as inference and agentic AI

20:10

create more persistent storage needs. So

20:12

that is the key phrase persistent

20:14

storage. Training a model is one thing

20:16

but if AI agents are constantly working

20:18

creating files referencing history

20:20

searching databases and generating media

20:23

then storage demand could grow in way

20:25

more capacity and people right now are

20:27

underestimating that. And I suspect that

20:29

to be true because even, you know, I was

20:31

using Chai GPT and I asked it to create

20:32

an image. Right now, I feel like they're

20:34

just creating so many images and that's

20:35

just only really the beginning. Right

20:37

now, there's just so much image

20:38

generation and that's just the

20:40

beginning, right? There's going to be

20:40

more video generation and more demands

20:42

from that side as well. So, looking at

20:44

the management, the CEO is David Goker.

20:46

He uh previously ran Western Digital and

20:49

before that he was a senior executive at

20:51

Cisco. And that matters because SanDisk

20:53

is not just a consumer memory card

20:55

company anymore. it needs to sell into

20:57

enterprise hyperscalers and data center

20:59

customers. So, Geoeckler has enterprise

21:01

technology background for that.

21:03

Management's recent capital allocation

21:05

also matters because SanDisks announced

21:07

a major buyback after huge earnings

21:09

growth. And again, you guys know that on

21:10

this channel I look at opportunity

21:12

within stocks. I use options to generate

21:14

income on those stocks. I use sometimes

21:16

simple strategies and other times I've

21:18

used growth strategies within my

21:19

personal portfolio that I cover on my

21:21

Discord community. And one kind of topic

21:23

that I like to look at is major buybacks

21:25

because that's something that is

21:27

basically what I call or that is called

21:28

financial engineering. A company is

21:30

financial engineering by buying back

21:32

their shares and basically betting on

21:33

themselves, right? So that could be

21:34

really smart if a company believes the

21:36

market is still undervalued because

21:37

there's less shares outstanding. So

21:39

aggressive buybacks create less

21:40

outstanding shares, making the shares

21:42

that are outstanding more valuable. The

21:44

most important number investors need to

21:46

know is revenue growth, data center

21:48

revenue growth, nan pricing, gross

21:50

margin, customer commitment, and free

21:52

cash flow of the company. Of course,

21:53

Leopalt has likely done all of this

21:55

research and he sees something very

21:57

valuable in the company. I've done my

21:58

own research, and I think SanDesk right

22:00

now is trading at fair value. The stock

22:02

is already up a lot. So the next

22:04

catalyst that would have to bring the

22:05

stock higher would have to be some type

22:07

of contract renegotiation more you know

22:09

opportunities in the market or simply

22:11

their biggest competitors such as

22:13

Samsung Western Digital having a slip up

22:16

somewhere. So compared to those

22:17

companies SanDisk has a cleaner NAND and

22:20

flash storage story which is what I

22:21

think is the major bullcase here. Now

22:23

the fourth stock within Leopold's fund

22:26

is cororeweave ticker symbol CRWV.

22:29

This is the name that probably most

22:30

people know best within this group.

22:32

Cororeweave is one of the original

22:34

Neocloud winners. It started as a crypto

22:36

mining operation pivoting into GPU cloud

22:38

and they have become very tight, very

22:40

buddy buddy with Nvidia. It became one

22:42

of the most important AI infrastructure

22:43

companies almost overnight through that

22:45

relationship. Right? When you have a

22:46

good relationship with Nvidia, the

22:48

market understands that there's a lot of

22:49

cash flow. There's a lot of money that's

22:51

about to be flowing to that business

22:53

that has, you know, partnered up or have

22:55

has a relationship with Nvidia. And the

22:57

reason why cororeweave matters right now

22:58

and is likely within Leopaul's holdings

23:00

is that is basically the public market

23:02

test case for the entire AI cloud

23:04

thesis. If coreweave works then

23:06

investors will believe more in Nebus,

23:09

Iran and other neo clouds because core

23:11

is pretty much the leader within this

23:13

right. If coreweave breaks then the

23:15

whole group probably gets questioned as

23:17

well which is also really valuable

23:18

because those companies could lag

23:20

coreweave when coreweave has earnings

23:22

when they have an announcement or news

23:24

since they are pretty much the leader

23:25

then their stock jumps up significantly.

23:27

So potentially there could be something

23:28

really big on the horizon for coreweave

23:30

the biggest reason investors are excited

23:32

is the backlog. So when I looked at the

23:34

backlog is really huge. Cororeweave has

23:35

signed massive deals with some of the

23:37

biggest AI customers in the entire

23:39

world. Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft

23:41

Anthropic. So these are not small

23:43

customers. These are the exact customers

23:44

that everybody wants. These customers

23:47

have the biggest wallets. They have the

23:48

biggest chin wallets and they're

23:50

spending ton of the money that they

23:52

have. So this really proves demand and I

23:54

actually believe demand is likely to

23:56

become stronger and that's likely why

23:58

Cororeweave is a very interesting play

24:00

right now. The biggest reason investors

24:01

are skeptical is really the balance

24:03

sheet. Coreweave is spending enormous

24:04

amounts of money to build

24:05

infrastructure, has very heavy debt, it

24:08

has lease obligations, it has huge

24:09

interest expenses, and it needs to keep

24:11

executing perfectly because the company

24:12

is basically sprinting and they have

24:13

really heavy, you know, 25 30 lb weight

24:16

vest on top of them. So, you know, it

24:17

it's kind of like an uphill battle right

24:19

now, but I I see opportunity within the

24:21

company and within the free guide that I

24:22

have in the description, I talk more

24:24

about why I think this play is

24:25

interesting, but it's less favorable

24:27

compared to the next stock on our list.

24:29

Now, the fifth largest holdings in

24:30

Leopold's portfolio, which I also

24:32

personally love and I have in my

24:33

portfolio, is Iren. This one might be

24:35

the highest risk, highest chaos name in

24:37

the group. Iran used to be known as a

24:38

Bitcoin mining company. And that matters

24:40

because Bitcoin miners are basically

24:41

power infrastructure companies disguised

24:43

as crypto companies. They already know

24:45

how to find cheap power. They know how

24:47

to build data centers and they know how

24:49

to run highdensity compute. And they

24:51

already have sites where electricity is

24:52

the main input. Then AI showed up and

24:55

completely changed the unit economics of

24:57

everything. Economically, Iran decided

24:59

to shift and because the question now

25:00

became instead of using all this power

25:02

for Bitcoin mining, can we use it for AI

25:05

compute? And that's where Iran found a

25:07

gold mine because IN signed major AI

25:09

cloud deals with Microsoft and Nvidia.

25:12

This company really became a hot stock

25:14

and this is a company that I have

25:15

invested in when it was $30 per share. I

25:17

think this makes a lot of sense in Leo

25:18

Paul's portfolio. It is one thing for a

25:20

former Bitcoin miner to say we're

25:21

pivoting to AI. Everyone can just say

25:23

that. It's another thing to have

25:24

Microsoft and Nvidia involved within

25:26

your pivot. That's what gives the story

25:28

a lot of credibility. The biggest reason

25:29

investors are excited is Iron's power

25:32

portfolio. In AI infrastructure, power

25:34

is the new land grab. If Iran has

25:36

secured large amounts of power in places

25:38

like Texas and can turn that into AI

25:40

data center capacity, then the company

25:42

could be sitting on extremely valuable

25:44

infrastructure. The CEO structure is

25:46

also interesting because IN is run by

25:48

brothers Daniel Roberts and Will Roberts

25:51

as co-CEOs. Daniel Roberts has a finance

25:53

and infrastructure style background

25:55

including time at McGuire and that

25:57

matters because this is now a capital

25:59

market and infrastructure execution

26:01

story. Management is making aggressive

26:03

capital allocation decisions. Now I ran

26:05

they are basically trying to convert a

26:07

power first asset base into a GPU cloud

26:10

business as quickly as possible. That

26:12

could be really brilliant but it could

26:14

also be too much too fast. So there's

26:16

something that Leopold sees within this

26:18

company that is likely a quick catalyst

26:20

within Iran's future. The most important

26:22

numbers to me is that investors need to

26:24

know are contracted power, energized

26:26

power, GPU count, AI cloud revenue run

26:29

rate. A lot of this data I'm getting

26:31

through reading reports that IN has

26:33

through their management and their

26:34

investor relations. Upon doing my own

26:36

research, the bookcase for me in the

26:37

next 3 to 10 years is that I think IN

26:39

could be a $100 stock within probably 12

26:41

to 18 months. I can see what LEO

26:42

policies within this company. And in

26:44

other words, IN does not really need to

26:46

become an Amazon Web Services of the

26:48

future. Doesn't really need to do that.

26:49

It needs to take power, land,

26:51

facilities, and chips and turn that into

26:53

contracted AI compute faster than its

26:56

competitors. So, this is a really

26:57

interesting holding that Leopold has,

26:59

and I have this stock in my own

27:00

portfolio. I read might actually be one

27:02

of the most leveraged public bets on the

27:04

idea that power access is more valuable

27:06

than cloud brand in the next phase of AI

27:08

infrastructure. So, is this stock cheap

27:10

right now? Well, not on the current

27:11

financials, on current revenue and

27:13

losses, this is really speculative. But

27:15

on future contracted AI revenue and

27:18

power capacity, bulls can argue the

27:20

market is still not fully valuing what

27:22

IN could become if it executes. And if

27:24

they execute over the next 12 months,

27:26

then very well Iran can be a hundred

27:28

plus dollar stock per share. Especially

27:30

if Microsoft and Nvidia are not one-off

27:32

deals. If those deals become proof that

27:34

Iran can repeatedly convert power sites

27:36

into AI cloud revenue, then the company

27:38

would be much more valuable. But if the

27:40

deals are difficult to execute or

27:42

margins disappoint or the business needs

27:44

too much capital, then this could be a

27:46

hard point. Of course, Leopold trades

27:48

stocks. He's not always holding these

27:49

stocks for long periods of time. So, a

27:51

lot could change and I'm going to be

27:52

following his 13F filings. If you get

27:54

the free guide in my description and you

27:56

sign up for my email list, I'll also be

27:58

able to update you and send you further

27:59

emails on any changes within his

28:01

holdings when I look at his 13F filings.

28:04

So, when I look at all five of these

28:05

names together, I think that the theme

28:07

becomes very clear. Nebius is the AI

28:09

cloud platform bet. Bloom Energy is the

28:11

power bottleneck bet. Sandesk is the

28:14

storage bottleneck bet. Coreweave is the

28:17

proven Neocloud scale bet. And IN is the

28:20

power to compute conversion bet. And

28:22

this is why the title is forget Nvidia.

28:25

Not because Nvidia doesn't matter.

28:26

Nvidia absolutely matters. But because

28:28

by the time everybody knows Nvidia

28:30

matters, some of the most interesting

28:32

opportunities may be in the companies

28:34

trying to solve the next order of

28:36

problems that Nvidia success creates.

28:38

More GPUs create more power demand. More

28:41

power demand creates more pressure on

28:43

the grid. More AI workloads create more

28:46

storage demand. More storage demand

28:49

creates memory shortages. And more AI

28:51

labs create more demand for specialized

28:54

cloud capacity. And that's the basket

28:56

that Leo Paul appears to be betting on.

28:58

He's not just betting on AI models. He's

29:00

betting on the industrialization of AI.

29:03

And now this is the real story. The risk

29:04

is that the entire group is priced for a

29:06

lot of success. These are not sleepy

29:08

value stocks. These are volatile,

29:10

capital inensive, high execution names.

29:12

If AI infrastructure spending slows

29:14

down, these stocks can fall very hard.

29:17

If financing conditions tighten, these

29:19

stocks can fall very hard. However, if

29:20

there's more contracts, if there's more

29:22

AI demand, and if the compounding

29:24

continues and this AI revolution that

29:25

we're in continues to build out, these

29:27

companies can become very large winners.

29:29

Download my free report on Leopalt's

29:31

holdings with further analysis on the

29:32

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29:34

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Interactive Summary

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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