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Mad Hedge Fund Trader

August 15, 2022

Tech Letter

 Mad Hedge Technology Letter
August 15, 2022
Fiat Lux

Featured Trade:

(JUST LET IT FLOW)
(ADAM NEUMANN), (WE), (AAPL)

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Just Let It Flow

Tech Letter

Flow, a residential real estate company helmed by a famous tech CEO, and a famous tech venture capitalist, is worth $1 billion and has 0 revenue.

Adam Neumann is back!

If many have forgotten, Neumann was that guy who shook down Softbank’s Masayoshi Son by buying up commercial offices and subletting them as shared office space with a pay-as-you-go subletting model.

This was bizarrely branded as a tech company called WeWork (WE).

From the get-go, the business model sounded illogical, but Softbank went with it and before downgrading the valuation to $9 billion, it was supposed to be worth around $50 billion.

Neumann exited the business with a $480 million payout after Softbank negotiated the payout down from $960 million.

The hefty golden parachute is the capital he’s leveraging for his new residential real estate business that now has venture capital backing it.  

Famous venture capital giant, known for investments in 100-baggers like Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook, Andreessen Horowitz led by Marc Andreesen said it would invest $350 million in Adam Neumann’s residential real estate company Flow.

Andreesen comically claimed that Neuman is a “visionary leader.”

In the same blog, Andreesen explains that renters need a “sense of genuine ownership.”

Smaller housing is now what developers are doing to combat inflation.

My guess from Andreesen’s blog is that giving “renters a sense of security” could mean taking Neumann’s massive real estate portfolio and creating an atrocious tiny house or sleeping pod network.

They could then resell these mini clusters for a giant profit before Neumann’s next victory lap.

Neumann might install free artisanal coffee or frisbee golf for the “making it cool” effect like he did for his office sharing space as well.

According to a Wall Street Journal report in January, Neumann had acquired majority stakes in over 4,000 apartments, valued at $1 billion altogether.

Why not chop them up into 20,000 units, claim these assets are $5 billion, and double the rent or sell them for a higher price?

It’s low-hanging fruit, right?

Flow is scheduled to launch in 2023 and I can tell you there is nothing “visionary” about Adam Neumann and his insidious entrepreneurial spirit.

This is just a glaring example of the late cycle euphoria of tech that will most likely result in the median American living worse off and Andreesen losing $350 million.

This is not only a late cycle but the latest this cycle can get with this type of idea.

We are still living off the Apple (AAPL) iPhone technology and we are on version 13 and up to well beyond a $1,000 price point.

Innovation has hit a saturation point, and once we start getting to iPhone 15 or 17 at a $3,000 or $5,000 price point, the diminishing returns will accelerate.

Investing in a “transformative” big tech-infused residential real estate company headed by Adam Neumann sounds like a suicide mission for Andreesen’s reputation.

Monetizing small apartments is bad optics for Andreesen. It’s not his bread and butter…it’s not cutting edge.

Andreesen’s behavior most likely reveals that one of the leading VCs thinks the metaverse is just a bunch of castles in the sky.

However, these developments also show how minuscule the opportunities are in the land of big tech today.  

Lastly, Flow has kept under wraps the master plan for this revolutionary company because of fear of giving away the new secret sauce to residential real estate.

It’s most likely because the secret sauce is not that tasty.

 

flow

THE GENIUS TECH CEO THAT IS NOT A TECH CEO

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August 15, 2022 - Quote of the Day

Tech Letter

“If you don’t have a mobile strategy, you're in deep turd.” – Said CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang

 

 

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August 12, 2022

Tech Letter

 Mad Hedge Technology Letter
August 12, 2022
Fiat Lux

Featured Trade:

(WAITING FOR LIFT-OFF)
(AMZN), ($COMPQ)

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Waiting for Lift-Off

Tech Letter

The broader stock market will be saved, and the Nasdaq, comprised of tech firms, will be able to muddle through this bubble-deleveraging cycle completely unscathed.

To this day, the only meaningful erosion has appeared in the crypto industry and Chinese property developer market, which isn’t even in the U.S.

With the likes of Amazon staging a roaring rally, the situation is in good shape heading into 2023.

I would categorize relative performance as an unequivocal victory as the tech market sniffs out a rate cut cycle.

The interest rate cut cycle is forecasted to start in June 2023, giving us just 10 months to get to the point where tech explodes upwards.

I can guarantee that quality tech stocks will be higher than they are 2 years from now.

So let me throw some cold water on all those fear mongers.

This “rude awakening” that certain armchair experts are warning us about is yet to surface in Corporate America.

Despite the erosion of wage gains by high inflation, Corporate America has yet to show a substantial uptick in bankruptcies.

In a report published earlier this month, S&P counted only 212 U.S. bankruptcy filings from the start of the year through July 31.

This marked the fewest number of bankruptcy filings through the first seven months of any year going back to at least 2010.

Credit investors do not appear to be concerned about widespread defaults in the future either.

A recent survey from Bank of America Global Research showed a nudge higher in credit investor expectations for the rate of corporate defaults over the next year. But at 3.1%, the expected corporate default rate is far lower than expectations during the health situation.

The naive analyst would say these are remarkable statistics considering how financial conditions have tightened amid the Federal Reserve's aggressive rate hikes aimed at tamping down inflation, which have resulted in a doubling of longer-term interest rates. This resulting rise in rates increases the burden for companies carrying high levels of debt.

But let me bring you back to reality. A 2.5% Fed Funds during 9.1% inflation means that capital conditions are HIGHLY accommodative.

Even Facebook did their first debt offering in these conditions with a $10 billion bond.

The numbers still make financial sense to borrow at 2.5% in a 9.1% inflationary environment because the 5.5% in real interest gains is an asset to hold onto.

In fact, the 5.3% inflation in 2021 means that a 2-year aggregate relative gain of 11.9% against inflation means that borrowing over the past 2 years has been a no-brainer.

Acceleration in borrowing costs should be acknowledged — and unfortunately, profit margins come down and we don’t get as rich.

Cry me a river.

But the aggregate statistics show corporate tech companies are not only super strong but also one of the major benefactors of the global enterprise over the past 3 years as we have lurched from crisis to crisis.

The truth is that many investors are sitting on a mountain of equity via pocketed stimulus checks, dividends, PPP loans, and other gargantuan subsidies.

Ultimately, the crown jewels of tech are in position to skyrocket once these central bankers push through miniscule interest rate hikes over the next 10 months.

The last thing these professional bureaucrats want to do is rock the boat.

Therefore, they are doing just enough to show they care about inflation without really tackling it, so for the next rate lowering cycle, risk assets will go bananas from a much higher cost base.

Position yourself right, get the timing correct, and the path to riches is in reach.

 

interest rate

 

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August 12, 2022 - Quote of the Day

Tech Letter

“Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.” – Said American Investor Warren Buffett

 

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August 10, 2022

Tech Letter

 Mad Hedge Technology Letter
August 10, 2022
Fiat Lux

Featured Trade:

(THE VISION FUND NEEDS MORE VISION)
(SOFTBANK), ($COMPQ)

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The Vision Fund Needs More Vision

Tech Letter

Last quarter, the tech ($COMPQ) bellwether venture fund Softbank lost $23 billion!

The Founder Masayoshi Son is a genius at losing money.

For those doing the math, that’s over $10 million PER HOUR in Q2 or $3000 per second.

His poor decisions cost the likes of Saudi Arabia, The UAE, and other cashflow-rich entities.

The Saudi oil money got sold on the dream of “reimagining salad delivery” and building coupon apps for dogs.

It didn’t work.

It's fair to say there was a gross misallocation of funds buoyed by an era of cheap capital, and now many of these business models have blown up.

Over-capitalization of startups has a way of masking fundamental business models.

Even Uber. The unit economics make zero sense as a ride-share with higher gas prices, expensive car insurance, higher gross wages, and expensive debt issuances.

They have never justified their valuation and they are still in business only because they are a monopoly.

It’s crazy to think a company like this is still worth an overinflated $61 billion today because it should be closer to $15 billion.

CEO Masayoshi Son's multibillion-dollar investment spree over the past few years has shredded his fat ego as rising interest rates and recession fears decimated tech shares and venture capital investments.

Warren Buffet likes to say when the tide comes in, we get to see who’s swimming naked.

Son added that he will be making big changes over the coming months, looking to be “more selective in making investments,” because “the market and the world are in confusion.”

Vision Funds have backed over 470 startups globally in the past six years, but SoftBank approved just $600 million in investments for the funds in the April-June quarter, a 97% decline in spending from the same quarter last year.

Son is also firing a bloated staff which clearly, he doesn’t need since performance and stock prices have gone out the window.

SoftBank was also forced to sell $10.5 billion of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s stock to raise cash in the April-June quarter and dumped an additional $6.8 billion in shares after the quarter ended.

SoftBank saw its losses from stock market investments pile up during the April-June quarter. The Vision Fund alone saw $2.18 billion in losses from its stake in the South Korean e-commerce leader Coupang, which is down 33% year to date, and $1.64 billion in losses from DoorDash, which has dropped 46% since January.

But it’s the Vision Funds' early-stage investments that are seeing the worst results amid an ongoing venture capital slowdown, with startups such as the buy-now, pay-later darling Klarna losing billions in value so far this year.

Startups don’t thrive in this current high inflation, high interest rate, supply chain bottleneck economy.

Stagflation fears have skyrocketed.

Son is finding out the hard way with these young companies decimated and is grasping at straws.

In this world, tech investors must filter the strong amongst the pitiful and the broad-brush approach of buying a massive basket of emerging tech won’t work anymore if a good chunk of them are fat zeroes.

The massive tech bubble is still deflating as the Fed is pedal to the metal with raising interest rates.

 

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August 10, 2022 - Quote of the Day

Tech Letter

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” – Said Greek Philosopher Plato

 

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August 8, 2022

Tech Letter

 Mad Hedge Technology Letter
August 8, 2022
Fiat Lux

Featured Trade:

(DO THE ROOMBA)
(IRBT), (AMZN), (GOOGL)

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