Investors / stance tracking
What Alex Sacerdote is saying
Founder & Portfolio Manager, Whale Rock Capital Management
10 dated public stances tracked since 2026-06-09, most recently 2026-06-09. Each line carries the date and the venue it came from; quotation marks mean verbatim. Methodology.
The stances below are c8alpha's editorial distillation of Alex Sacerdote's public commentary — television, podcasts, and interviews — compiled by automated transcript analysis and dated to the episode they came from. They may lag the speaker's current view and may contain extraction errors. Text in quotation marks is verbatim from the episode; everything else is our paraphrase. Alex Sacerdote is not affiliated with c8alpha and has not endorsed this page. Nothing here is investment advice.
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tracked stances
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themes
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2026-06-09
last heard
Returns 90d -2.0% (n=6)
Raw direction-aware returns on public statements — long calls credited when the price rose, shorts when it fell, shorts capped at −100% — in a rising market this mostly measures who was long, not who has skill. Returns run from the stance date; calls are rarely closed publicly, so fixed 90-day / 180-day / 1-year horizons are used. A horizon shows only once it has fully matured, and only at 5+ scored stances.
Most-argued themes
| Theme | Stances | Lean | Mix | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANTHROPIC | 1 | 1 bullish | 2026-06-09 | |
| ASML | 1 | 1 bullish | 2026-06-09 | |
| CLS | 1 | 1 bullish | 2026-06-09 | |
| ENTERPRISE APPLICATION SOFTWARE (SAAS) | 1 | 1 bearish | 2026-06-09 | |
| GLW | 1 | 1 bullish | 2026-06-09 | |
| GOOGL | 1 | 1 bullish | 2026-06-09 |
Tracked stances
bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.
2026-06-09
NVDA
bullish
Invest Like the Best · video
Nvidia sits at the center of the AI hardware renaissance where workloads are growing 10x annually, pushing every aspect of hardware to physical limits and demanding constant innovation, while power consumption per rack rising 50-125% drives persistent ASP…
“when we were buying Nvidia in 2023, we were paying four times earnings”
90d +8.4%
Why the AI Boom Is Just Getting Started
2026-06-09
ANTHROPIC
owns
Invest Like the Best · video
Anthropic has achieved escape velocity in the enterprise AI oligopoly — leading in code generation, building a sticky ecosystem (SDK, orchestration layer, Claude Code) around the model API, and growing 10x in revenue to ~$9B on the back of agentic coding…
“we made the investment at the 180 valuation... the numbers were like nothing we'd ever seen before, 100 to a billion on the way to 9”
Why the AI Boom Is Just Getting Started
2026-06-09
TW
owns
Invest Like the Best · video
Elite Materials makes copper clad laminate, the leading ingredient for AI server PCBs whose layer count is rising from 10 to 40 layers, creating a ~50-60% CAGR in unit-equivalent demand with rising ASPs and margins as AI workloads push physical limits of…
“we also own Elite Materials which makes the leading ingredient which is copper clad laminate which goes into these boards”
Why the AI Boom Is Just Getting Started
2026-06-09
GOOGL
owns
Invest Like the Best · video
Google is one of three durable winners in the AI foundational model oligopoly via Gemini, cannot be counted out, and holds differentiated competitive advantages including superior PDF ingestion and massive existing enterprise relationships
“Gemini can never be counted out. We love Google as well. It's one of our largest positions.”
90d -7.1%
Why the AI Boom Is Just Getting Started
2026-06-09
ASML
bullish
Invest Like the Best · video
ASML holds irreplaceable critical IP in EUV lithography — no chip can be made without it — making it a structurally protected beneficiary of the AI hardware renaissance where semiconductor demand is growing 10x annually
“ASML has critical intellectual property. You can't make a chip without their lithography.”
90d -0.6%
Why the AI Boom Is Just Getting Started
2026-06-09
CLS
bullish
Invest Like the Best · video
Celestica is the sole supplier of Google's TPU server and holds 50-60% share of the cloud Ethernet switch market — a segment upgrading annually vs. a prior 7-year cycle — and has defensible IP in liquid cooling and open-source sonic software, transforming a…
“they were the sole supplier of the Google TPU server... the stock was trading at eight times earnings”
90d -11.3%
Why the AI Boom Is Just Getting Started
2026-06-09
ENTERPRISE APPLICATION SOFTWARE (SAAS)
short
Invest Like the Best · video
Legacy SaaS incumbents face simultaneous headwinds: CIO budgets shifting to AI tokens with faster ROI, pricing power eroding, seat growth stalling as AI reduces headcount, and an existential threat from AI-native competitors who can replicate functionality…
“entering this year, we were actually net net short. And uh it really helped us in the first quarter”
Why the AI Boom Is Just Getting Started
2026-06-09
KS
bullish
Invest Like the Best · video
SK Hynix is the dominant producer of high bandwidth memory — stacked 10 chips tall with 10x prior I/O speeds — which took years to develop and is now a critical and constrained component in every AI server as global compute supply falls 30% short of demand
“Heinix is extremely levered to it... we're already 30% short all these things as we are now”
Why the AI Boom Is Just Getting Started
2026-06-09
GLW
bullish
Invest Like the Best · video
Corning holds dominant share of the specialty fiber market that is being stress-tested by AI data center buildout — one Microsoft data center alone requires enough fiber to circle the earth four and a half times — and a future migration from copper to fiber…
“when that happens that two to three X's Corning's opportunity”
90d -4.4%
Why the AI Boom Is Just Getting Started
2026-06-09
TSM
bullish
Invest Like the Best · video
TSMC is the manufacturing backbone of the AI chip supply chain and is extremely levered to AI infrastructure buildout, benefiting as the sole capable fabricator for leading-edge AI chips where scaling laws continue to drive demand
“TSM is really levered to it”
90d +2.8%
Why the AI Boom Is Just Getting Started
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