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Francis
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Founder, Software Analyst Cyber Research | Tweets on Cybersecurity & AI/ML | Catholic. Distance Runner. | Ex Cyber Research | Ex AI PM.
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    Jan 27
    This #DataPrivacyWeek, we published our SACR Cybersecurity Outlook for 2026. After a “wait and see” 2024, the market reopened in force in 2025 with $96B in M&A across 400 deals, driven by platform consolidation and AI-first security bets. 2026 is gearing up for a reset that
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    Sep 28, 2021
    Saul Rosenthal: A great who from 1989-2007 averaged 32% returns compared to the market’s 12%. Now lives off his portfolio, a few advice based on excerpts from an article 5-years ago:
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    Sep 6, 2021
    10 Founder-Led, Enterprise Software Portfolio that will be dominant companies by 2030: • $SNOW (Data) • $PLTR (AI) • $NVDA (AI) • $CRWD (Security) • $ZS (Security) • $TWLO (Comms) • $DDOG (Cloud) • $PATH (Automation) • $NET (Edge) • $MDB (Database) • $CFLT (Analytics)
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    Dec 30, 2021
    Saul is my 2021 Investor of the year. I have studied many successful fund managers this year but nobody beats the success of him. He has averaged over 32%+ CAGR for over 28 years and 6x'd his portfolio returns. This is Thread Pt. 2 of where I dig deeper into his framework:
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    Dec 4, 2021
    I went down a rabbit hole digging into one of the most successful and secretive hedge funds: Coatue Global Mgmt. + 483% since June 2013 with a 50% annualized return. + Top 1% of Tech L/S Hedge Funds + One of the most successful Tiger Cubs. A thread on some interesting findings:
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    Jan 22, 2022
    Cybersecurity is one of the fastest growing tech sectors today as a result of Cyberattacks increasing 2300% over the past few years! This critical industry can be complex to fully understand it all. In this thread, I'll breakdown the entire cybersecurity industry into steps:
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    Oct 9, 2021
    This is a comprehensive thread on the Buy-Now-Pay-Later Trend. Why have the World's Largest Retailers chosen Affirm's BNPL solution instead of building their solution in-house? This thread explores $AFRM's Competitive Advantage and the current Credit Card disruption:
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    Sep 11, 2021
    An Investor and Founder-Led Portfolio made up of the PayPal Mafia will likely crush it again by 2030: Public Portfolio: • $PLTR • $TSLA • $AFRM • $SQ • $UBER • $PINS • $PYPL Private Portfolio: • Stripe • Reddit • OpenAI • SpaceX • Boring Company Mind-blowing! [1/4]
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    Jan 12, 2022
    The entire cybersecurity landscape: I'm working on a deep-dive report that delves into the cybersecurity ecosystem. Security is my top pick in 2022. This is a sneak peek, so stay tuned for it next week. $CRWD $NET $S $FTNT $OKTA $ZS $PANW.
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    Jun 24, 2021
    @dennishong17 grew his fund from $10M+ to $1.5B in about 6-years He has some incredible returns. I just absorbed lessons about his philosophies. Here are his 10 most important Investing principles that led to his success:
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    Oct 9, 2021
    This is a snippet into my underlying thesis on Palantir Technologies summed up into 1- page. [ $PLTR ]
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    Jul 3, 2021
    [$PLTR] This is a running thread library for all my research on Palantir Technologies. I've written over 50K+ words studying $PLTR this year alone. This is my plan of organizing everything into a meta thread:
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    Dec 9, 2021
    The Rising Challenge of SentinelOne: $CRWD is the undoubted leader of the endpoint cybersecurity market. However, there is a very compelling thesis for $S - SentinelOne. I'll outline my research notes in this full thread (and an upcoming Spaces!):
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    Aug 29, 2022
    The latest @BatteryVentures report on Cloud software valuations is out. It's stunning to see how software valuations have compressed over the past 10-months (chart annotated below) Some other interesting findings below: 1/13