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SPOT directional thesis

Everybody piled into AI and dumped consumer internet, but the best consumer compounders like Spotify keep growing for years off billions of engaged phone users.

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huge focus on SaaS, huge focus on all things AI, and huge de-emphasis of consumer-based internet businesses. And so I think that's actually a pretty interesting opportunity where one can be contrarian and we continue to see interesting private opportunities that I think most of the world's not focused on.
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