📈 Tech drawdown is in the eighth inning - the bottom is close
The high-multiple tech de-rating is nearly finished: growth names are already off 50-80% and are oversold. Big tech still has 10-15% to give up, and once the generals crack the pain is over. Big tech is effectively the index and has not drawn down more than 15-25% in twenty years, and the enormous cash on the sidelines buys the bottom within weeks, the way it did in March 2020.
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⚖ Why this verdict
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- Window: 2022-01-22 → 2023-01-22 — first mention + 12-month horizon, then the window locks.
- The call: ▲ LONG QQQ (primary play). QQQ fell 19.4% over the window → direction-adjusted R = -19.4% (the call lost money).
- Benchmark: holding SPY over the same window returned -8.5% → α = -19.4 − (-8.5) = -10.9% — what this call made or lost against just owning the index. This is the number the verdict uses.
- Rule fired:
· HIT — R ≥ +10% AND α ≥ +5· PARTIAL — R ≥ +5% OR α ≥ 0▶ MISS — everything else
- Credit: supporters of a MISS earn 0 each, opposers the inverse — this feeds the scoreboard weights. supported: Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner, Friedberg, Jason | opposed: Chamath, Sacks | proxy-sensitive: SPY→PARTIAL (-8.5%)
Conviction timeline
bands: green ≥ 65 · watch ≥ 45 · ember ≥ 15
Plays vs SPY · % since first mention (2022-01-22)
Plays
| expression | symbol | kind | relevance | rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▲ LONG | QQQ | etf | PRIMARY | the big-tech index he says cannot draw down more than 15-25% before dip buyers show up |
| ▲ LONG | ARKK | etf | adjacent | the high-growth cohort already off 50-80% that he calls oversold in the eighth inning |
| ▲ LONG | SPY | etf | adjacent | broad index proxy for the 'bottom existed for a week' March-2020 analogy |
Mention log
“We're in the eighth, in my opinion, I think we're in the eighth inning of the tech drawdown. So if you're a high growth tech company, you've been smashed for three months in a row. ... When you see this thing really get cracked is when those folks trade down another 10% or 15%. And then I think we're kind of through most of the pain.”
“if you go back to the, you know, from 1950 onwards today, every time the government has started to raise rates or the Federal Reserve has started to raise rates, the stock markets have actually rallied. Now, why is that? It's typically that they see through the end of the rate hike cycle, and they start to price the business as if these rate hikes are done and to rebase things. And on average, I think the stock markets go up between 7 and 8 percent.”
“these market levels that we're at right now, we look 60% correction in growth stocks. But this is with that still in a good economy in peacetime conditions. And now we have a risk of recession and war. So, you know, there's still room for, you know, a lot more negative news here is kind of my point.”
“what you saw over this past week is the bottoming out of a lot of these growth stocks that were beaten up, right? They rallied pretty significantly every day, three, four, five, six percent rallies. ... other names in big tech have rallied really well, including Microsoft.”
“In the.com bubble, it took somewhere between three to five years for most stocks to bottom. ... So it took three to five years to go basically minus 80%. We did that in three months, you know, maybe four months. And so the markets have become a lot more efficient over time. So now that we have that reset, it's pretty natural that there's going to be a very quick reset on the private market side.”
“think that the bottom in the S&P is around $3,800 and that what we still need to do is this one last flush and that last flush will really touch the big cap companies, but that growth is largely done sort of getting taken to the woodshed. So in general, I think that so generally buyers of growth now, sellers of value and waiting for this one last, you know, 400 point move down the S&P and I think people think it's roughly the bottom.”
“And as of I would say last week, it was right at about the historical trend, and now it's starting to go under the historical trends. So from a bargain hunting standpoint, you'd have to say that this is the first time that we've been below the average for a few years. ... But if this conflict can stay localized and the economy doesn't go into a recession because of everything that's happened, then yes, this might be bargain hunting.”
“I actually think we're in the part of the cycle here where we're starting to ignore the good news. And we're so negative, and we're so emotionally wrapped up in everything that people forget that actually the world tends to keep moving forward. ... But I think that there's a lot of good news out there.”
“Well, I think that we're in the midst of what I would call a meltup. So, you know, probably the next month, month and a half, there really isn't much, quote unquote, bad news that hasn't been priced in. ... So where are we going from here? Probably up.”
“I think the markets are mostly moving upwards for the short term and then I think volatility is going to come back. I'm just trying to find good long-term businesses and just kind of close my eyes and not have to look at these stock prices every day.”
“for us in moments like this, and I've lived probably through five of them in the public markets, we always do the same thing. Degross, take risk down. First thing is like have less chits on the board. Number two, reduce the number of outliers. Pull in the risk curve, right? For me, I want to own five or six things, because remember, I'm the biggest LP in the fund.”
“until the Fed see that there's a massive trading of liquidity, which means like you see these indices crack big time, 35, 3600 in the S&P, they're just going to keep ratcheting things up. As it comes all the way down to our companies in Silicon Valley and tech, what that means is like you have to start planning for the worst.”
“to be bearish right now is effectively not being bearish these growth stocks, because as we said, they've been just decimated. At this point, to be bearish, the indices means very specifically to be bearish. Those four names and only those four names. ... And so that may actually mean that the market has effectively crashed already.”
“I'm not necessarily bearish on growth stocks from here, because like you said, they've already been beat up so badly. The stock market is usually a leading indicator. What I'm a bearish about is just the state of the economy, because the stock market is traded down on expectations.”
“I actually think we're probably close to a near bottom-ish here, 3,800-ish in the S&P 500 ... You're actually starting to see some of these early green shoots of a market bottom. What are those? It's when the most heavily shorted stocks start to rip up”
“Look, the market is a leading indicator, not a lagging indicator. And so, it adjusts first and then the real economy adjusts after that. And the risk right now is the stock market is telling us something about where the real economy is headed.”
“We will be higher for growth stocks this time next year. But we may very well get there by way of lower and potentially meaningfully lower.”
“I'm very excited about public stocks here, actually. ... Yeah. Like the valuations are getting super interesting.”
“we're at the beginning of the beginning. Again, we're at the beginning of the beginning. Okay, for all of us that lived through the 2000, this was four years of sheer hell and a grind. ... people all of a sudden assume that two or three rate hikes and five or six months of headlines are enough.”
“And this is why I think we're in this first inning of this. So I don't know whether Ackman is right or wrong. But I think we're in the early phases of a two phase recession. ... But now the second shoe has to drop, which is if you believe that after this supply side issues are resolved, you go through a demand destruction phase, the earnings of these companies are in real trouble.”
“So they don't necessarily have to buy at any point. They just need to make money in the end. So right now we're in a situation where the markets are looking for a direction. Retail seems to think that direction should be up. Hedge funds don't have an opinion or saying, we're just going to wait this thing out.”
“So, you know, my very, very, very anecdotal experience has been that significant market participants I think are going to start to perk their head up this quarter and start to think about doing new things.”
“What it basically shows is that during protracted bear markets, you can still get substantial bear market rallies. And so during the 20002001.com crash, you had these plus 32%, plus 41%, plus 45% rallies, but even while the market as a whole was going down. And so they ended up being sort of sucker rallies. Now, I don't know if that is what's happening here, but it is a possibility.”
“But the silver lining is I think that we are starting a bottoming process for the equity markets. And I think that by the end of this year or the early part of next year, most of that will be done.”
“As I sit here today, yes, we're going to have harder times ahead economically, but it feels to me like a lot of it is priced in. I don't think we have huge asymmetry and skew to the downside. I think that's like fighting the last battle.”
“And, you know, we always said the market bottom will be when the generals, quote unquote, get shot, you know, to borrow a phrase from Gavin Baker. And it looks like the generals have been shot.”
“So like, you know, for me, I'm like, wow, I thought that we could get through the worst of this by mid 23 But now you have to plan for the worst, which means, OK, now I'm thinking that, man, rates could be higher for much longer, which means, you know, we could be in this market till early 25”
Who built this conviction
each voice's total force on the score — supports and opposes from every mention, weighted exactly as the replay applied them · share = % of all mention-driven movement
⏳ decay drained -16.2 over the idea's life — that's time passing, attributed to no one
Score events
| episode | kind | Δ | after | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E64 2022-01-22 | init | +35.2 | 35.2 | E64 born by Chamath (explicit_prediction x3) [w=0.84] |
| E65 2022-01-29 | reinforce | +9.8 | 44.9 | E65 Chamath support x3 [w=0.84] |
| E65 2022-01-29 | oppose | -10.6 | 34.3 | E65 Sacks opposes x2 [w=0.89] |
| E66 2022-02-05 | decay | -1.4 | 32.9 | E66 silent |
| E67 2022-02-12 | reinforce | +8.4 | 41.4 | E67 Chamath support x2 [w=0.84] |
| E68 2022-02-19 | reinforce | +7.4 | 48.7 | E68 Chamath support x2 [w=0.84] |
| E70 2022-02-24 | reinforce | +6.4 | 55.2 | E70 Chamath support x2 [w=0.84] |
| E70 2022-02-24 | reinforce | +6.0 | 61.1 | E70 Sacks support x2 (flipped from oppose) [w=0.89] |
| E70 2022-02-24 | reinforce | +8.5 | 69.6 | E70 Jason support x2 (new voice) [w=0.97] |
| E70 2022-02-24 | reinforce | +5.9 | 75.5 | E70 Friedberg support x2 (new voice) [w=0.87] |
| E71 2022-03-05 | reinforce | +3.1 | 78.6 | E71 Chamath support x2 [w=0.84] |
| E72 2022-03-19 | reinforce | +3.2 | 81.8 | E72 Chamath support x3 [w=0.84] |
| E73 2022-03-26 | reinforce | +2.3 | 84.1 | E73 Chamath support x2 [w=0.84] |
| E73 2022-03-26 | oppose | -13.7 | 70.4 | E73 Brad Gerstner opposes x3 [w=0.95] |
| E74 2022-04-01 | decay | -2.8 | 67.6 | E74 silent |
| E75 2022-04-09 | reversal | -40.5 | 27.0 | E75 Chamath flips |
| E76 2022-04-16 | decay | -1.1 | 25.9 | E76 silent |
| E77 2022-04-23 | decay | -1.0 | 24.9 | E77 silent |
| E78 2022-04-30 | reinforce | +9.4 | 34.3 | E78 Chamath support x2 (flipped from reversal) [w=0.84] |
| E78 2022-04-30 | reinforce | +8.7 | 43.1 | E78 Sacks support x2 [w=0.89] |
| E79 2022-05-07 | decay | -1.7 | 41.3 | E79 silent |
| E80 2022-05-13 | oppose | -8.3 | 33.0 | E80 Friedberg opposes x1 [w=0.87] |
| E80 2022-05-13 | reinforce | +10.1 | 43.1 | E80 Chamath support x3 [w=0.84] |
| E80 2022-05-13 | oppose | -10.6 | 32.5 | E80 Sacks opposes x2 [w=0.89] |
| E81 2022-05-23 | oppose | -11.5 | 21.0 | E81 Brad Gerstner opposes x2 [w=0.95] |
| E81 2022-05-23 | reinforce | +19.7 | 40.8 | E81 Bill Gurley support x2 (new voice) [w=1.11] |
| E82 2022-05-24 | decay | -1.6 | 39.1 | E82 silent |
| E84 2022-06-24 | reversal | -23.5 | 15.7 | E84 Chamath flips |
| E85 2022-06-30 | reinforce | +9.8 | 25.5 | E85 Jason support x1 [w=0.97] |
| E85 2022-06-30 | oppose | -12.1 | 13.4 | E85 Chamath opposes x3 (marked reversal; no prior support to flip) [w=0.84] |
| E85 2022-06-30 | reinforce | +11.3 | 24.7 | E85 Friedberg support x2 (flipped from oppose) [w=0.87] |
| E86 2022-07-08 | oppose | -12.1 | 12.6 | E86 Chamath opposes x3 (marked reversal; no prior support to flip) [w=0.84] |
| E87 2022-07-14 | oppose | -10.1 | 2.6 | E87 Chamath opposes x2 (marked reversal; no prior support to flip) [w=0.84] |
| E87 2022-07-14 | reinforce | +12.7 | 15.2 | E87 Friedberg support x2 [w=0.87] |
| E88 2022-07-22 | oppose | -12.1 | 3.2 | E88 Chamath opposes x3 (marked reversal; no prior support to flip) [w=0.84] |
| E89 2022-07-29 | decay | -0.1 | 3.1 | E89 silent |
| E90 2022-08-05 | reinforce | +14.1 | 17.2 | E90 Jason support x2 [w=0.97] |
| E90 2022-08-05 | oppose | -10.1 | 7.1 | E90 Chamath opposes x2 (marked reversal; no prior support to flip) [w=0.84] |
| E90 2022-08-05 | oppose | -7.1 | 0.0 | E90 Sacks opposes x2 [w=0.89] |
| E91 2022-08-13 | decay | · | 0.0 | E91 silent |
| E92 2022-08-20 | decay | · | 0.0 | E92 silent |
| E93 2022-08-26 | decay | · | 0.0 | E93 silent |
| E94 2022-09-01 | decay | · | 0.0 | E94 silent |
| E95 2022-09-10 | decay | · | 0.0 | E95 silent |
| E96 2022-09-17 | decay | · | 0.0 | E96 silent |
| E97 2022-09-23 | reinforce | +15.1 | 15.1 | E97 Chamath support x3 (flipped from reversal) [w=0.84] |
| E98 2022-10-01 | decay | -0.6 | 14.5 | E98 silent |
| E99 2022-10-07 | decay | -0.6 | 13.9 | E99 silent |
| E100 2022-10-14 | reinforce | +13.0 | 26.9 | E100 Chamath support x3 [w=0.84] |
| E100 2022-10-14 | reinforce | +8.5 | 35.4 | E100 Jason support x1 [w=0.97] |
| E101 2022-10-22 | reinforce | +9.2 | 44.6 | E101 Brad Gerstner support x2 (flipped from oppose) [w=0.95] |
| E102 2022-10-29 | reinforce | +8.3 | 53.0 | E102 Chamath support x3 [w=0.84] |
| E103 2022-11-05 | reversal | -31.8 | 21.2 | E103 Chamath flips |
| E105 2022-11-19 | reinforce | +9.2 | 30.4 | E105 Jason support x1 [w=0.97] |
| E106 2022-12-03 | decay | -1.2 | 29.2 | E106 silent |
| E107 2022-12-10 | decay | -1.2 | 28.0 | E107 silent |
| E108 2022-12-16 | decay | -1.1 | 26.9 | E108 silent |
| E109 2022-12-24 | oppose | -12.1 | 14.8 | E109 Chamath opposes x3 (marked reversal; no prior support to flip) [w=0.84] |
| E110 2023-01-06 | decay | -0.6 | 14.2 | E110 silent |
| E111 2023-01-13 | decay | -0.6 | 13.7 | E111 silent |
| E112 2023-01-20 | decay | -0.5 | 13.1 | E112 silent |