Brad Gerstner

Brad Gerstner

regular guest ×1.0 · 68 ideas engaged · 18 episodes · E11 → E284
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0.53
credit over 60 calls how this is scored
27/10/23
right / half / wrong
-4%
avg α on scored calls α
8
live positions
+0
lifetime conviction force · 0 ideas born
2.44
avg strength · 25 dissents

Does his own confidence mean anything?

the same scored calls, split by how hard he was pushing at the mention that set his final stance. If credit rises with strength, his table-pounding carries information and you should weight it. If it's flat or inverted, his confidence is noise — treat a ×3 like a ×1. Cells under 5 calls are provisional and get no weight in the replay.

he wascallscreditright/half/wrongavg αread
×3 table-pounding 27 0.48 11/4/12 -16% coin flip
×2 stated with reasoning 32 0.56 15/6/11 +4% better than coin flip
×1 offhand aside 1 1.0 1/0/0 +45% provisional (n<5)

Which kind of claim to trust

by the tier of the mention that set his final stance — a dated prediction is a different animal from a passing lean, and they don't have to score alike

tiercallscreditright/half/wrongavg α
explicit_prediction 33 0.5 13/7/13 -27%
positioning 9 0.56 5/0/4 +38%
sentiment 18 0.58 9/3/6 +16%

What he's actually good at

his row of the scoreboard — these are the exact cells rescore.py uses to weight his mentions. w = clamp(2 × credit, 0.3, 1.5), applied only at n ≥ 5.

🤖 tech n=17
0.71 w=1.41 12/0/5
🌍 macro n=10
0.5 w=1.00 4/2/4
⚡ energy n=2
0.5 provisional 1/0/1
📈 equities n=22
0.48 w=0.95 9/3/10
🏛️ politics-market n=7
0.43 w=0.86 1/4/2
🏦 rates n=2
0.25 provisional 0/1/1

Live book — 8 positions

his latest stance on every ACTIVE idea. Expression = what he is effectively long or short: supporting a bearish idea is a SHORT, opposing one is a LONG.

ideahis stanceexpressionconvictionflageval in
🤖 AI compute capex supercycle has 12-24 months of runway support ×2 ▲ LONG NVDA 86.6 MOVING 346d
📈 SpaceX post-IPO: multiple ways to win from $1.4T support ×2 ▲ LONG SPCX 84.0 EARLY 1013d
🌍 The 2026 US boom — 5-6% GDP prints support ×3 ▲ LONG RSP 54.6 EARLY 122d
🤖 Anthropic IPO (~Oct 2026) is attractively priced at $1.5-2T CONTESTED support ×2 ▲ LONG GOOGL 53.9 EARLY 177d
🤖 Frontier AI labs keep durable premium pricing (not commoditized) CONTESTED support ×2 ▲ LONG MSFT 26.6 177d
🤖 The $3-4T software industrial complex contracts in 2026 CONTESTED support ×3 ▼ SHORT IGV 19.2 122d
🛢️ Hydrocarbons melt: oil sees $45 before $65 CONTESTED support ×1 ▼ SHORT USO 12.7 122d
🏦 Fed easing + disinflation into 2026 CONTESTED support ×2 ▲ LONG TLT 10.5 58d

Where his book points

net push per primary instrument across his live stances — conviction × his agreement × the idea's direction. This is his implied book, not a position he disclosed.

NVDA
+86.6 long
SPCX
+84.0 long
RSP
+54.6 long
GOOGL
+53.9 long
MSFT
+26.6 long
IGV
-19.2 short
USO
-12.7 short
TLT
+10.5 long

Best and worst calls

How he argues

STANCE MIX
support 83
oppose 25
TIER MIX
explicit_prediction 67
sentiment 25
positioning 16

Latest from him

support ×2 explicit_prediction 🤖 AI compute capex supercycle has 12-24 months of runway E284 · 2026-08-08 ▶ 43:40
The demand exists in the world today. I think it will exist in the world for, well, the next 12 to 24 months, ... I suspect this cannot keep up at this pace more than another two years or so. ... Famous last words, I don't see it today over the course of the next 12 to 18 months.
support ×2 sentiment 🤖 Frontier AI labs keep durable premium pricing (not commoditized) E284 · 2026-08-08 ▶ 18:13
Elon comes out and says, not so fast. We're entering the singularity and the frontier models are way further ahead than people think. I believe that to be true. ... Jensen came out this week and said, closed models are actually cheaper. ... explains why they continue to run away with it on the revenue side
support ×2 explicit_prediction 🤖 Anthropic IPO (~Oct 2026) is attractively priced at $1.5-2T E284 · 2026-08-08 ▶ 29:54
I hear a lot of people saying 1.5 or 2 trillion dollars. ... it's going to be run rating over 100 billion maybe by the end of the year. That's like 10 to 15 times revenue. That is not that much for a company that just grew 10x and is rumored to be profitable in Q2.
support ×2 explicit_prediction 📈 SpaceX post-IPO: multiple ways to win from $1.4T E284 · 2026-08-08 ▶ 29:54
now you have a company at 1.4 trillion that I think if you take a three or four year view, you can see yourself tripling your money in this business at a very reasonable valuation
support ×3 explicit_prediction 🤖 Anthropic IPO (~Oct 2026) is attractively priced at $1.5-2T E280 · 2026-07-11 ▶ 7:09
rumored to be trending over 100 billion in revenue ... I think it would be a blockbuster IPO. ... Altimeter would be a buyer at scale and at size in both of those IPOs. ... If these guys end the year over $100 billion, ... they're on a revenue trajectory that they could 3 to 5x again next year. ... 200 billion of incremental revenue is incomprehensible in the history of Silicon Valley, ... intelligence is the largest TAM we've ever seen in the history of the world.
support ×2 sentiment 📈 SpaceX post-IPO: multiple ways to win from $1.4T E280 · 2026-07-11 ▶ 12:22
the SpaceX IPO where we were also investors and we also bought in the IPO, ... trading at $2 trillion on roughly $35 billion of forward revenue. ... I still think there's a lot of meat on the bone on SpaceX, on Anthropic, on OpenAI. ... these things can be compounders. They're going to compound at the rate they compound revenue. ... well over 30% for the next many years.
support ×2 explicit_prediction 🤖 Frontier AI labs keep durable premium pricing (not commoditized) E280 · 2026-07-11 ▶ 47:22
the share of wallet, is actually increasing to the frontier labs, while the share of tokens, ... The difference between spending 3 bucks on a cheap model or 15 bucks on an expensive model to replace a $200 an hour consultant, ... The non-consensus argument might be that intelligence is not converging at all, ... as it becomes recursive, you actually extend the lead, ... the distance between the frontier and everybody else doesn't converge, it actually extends,
support ×3 positioning 🌍 The 2026 US boom — 5-6% GDP prints E272 · 2026-05-08 ▶ 1:01:32
80% of our exposures or more have been in compute, AI, memory, ... It's hard to imagine a more Goldilocks situation for the United States ... At some point, you just have to acknowledge USA is winning.
support ×3 positioning 🤖 Anthropic IPO (~Oct 2026) is attractively priced at $1.5-2T E268 · 2026-04-10 ▶ 44:13
We've got billions in both companies at this point... They added 4 billion of revenue in January, 7 billion in February, 10 or 11 billion in March [annualized]... the largest revenue explosion in the history of technology... I would not be shocked if you see Anthropic exiting this year at $80 to $100 billion in revenue... I'm a buyer of the shares today.
support ×2 explicit_prediction 🤖 Frontier AI labs keep durable premium pricing (not commoditized) E268 · 2026-04-10 ▶ 44:13
these revenue ramps are happening while the world is already using open source. This is not frontier only. ... The TAM of intelligence is dramatically larger than any TAM we've ever seen
support ×2 sentiment 🌍 The 2026 US boom — 5-6% GDP prints E268 · 2026-04-10 ▶ 1:13:17
the drawdown in this period over Iran was only down about five to seven percent on S&P and Nasdaq. ... if we land the plane on these two things, I think it's off to the races in the market. ... heading into America 250, July 4th, the market could really take off.
support ×3 positioning 🤖 Anthropic IPO (~Oct 2026) is attractively priced at $1.5-2T E264 · 2026-03-13 ▶ 29:06
I bought a lot more since then, Jason. ... we had a $6 billion month out of Anthropic in February, ... more revenue than the annual revenue of Databricks and Snowflake ... said they would both go public this year. I ... want to get some of these shares in the accounts of all these kids
support ×2 explicit_prediction 🤖 Frontier AI labs keep durable premium pricing (not commoditized) E264 · 2026-03-13 ▶ 30:18
the models and the agents on top of them, ... Anthropic at five or six billion dollars of revenue in a single month, ... the TAM is dramatically bigger than any of us think ... the frontier labs can do well even in the face of it.
support ×1 sentiment 🛢️ Hydrocarbons melt: oil sees $45 before $65 E264 · 2026-03-13 ▶ 6:14
My suspicion is that these impacts are shorter duration... The United States produces 20 million barrels of oil a day and we consume 20 million barrels a day. This is a modest problem for the United States.
support ×3 explicit_prediction 🤖 The $3-4T software industrial complex contracts in 2026 E260 · 2026-02-07 ▶ 17:44
the profit pool available to software is decreasing and the profit pool available to the agentic layer is increasing. ... It could be true that you're not going to replace CRM, but it can also be true that it's never going to trade at 30 times free cash flow again, ... it's available, Tam, in the future is now dramatically and permanently changed.