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The Chairman's Ledger

@ChairmansLedger

Ex-IB. Ex-startup founder, $100M+ exit. Former Special Operator. Defense tech, AI infra, Space, BTC, public market asymmetry.

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The Chairman's Ledger@ChairmansLedger·
New account, so here’s the short version. I started at JPM. Built a company. Sold it for $100M+. Served in places where risk was not theoretical. Now I spend my time looking for public companies sitting at the intersection of capital, technology, and strategic necessity. Defense tech. AI infrastructure. Space. Bitcoin. Critical infrastructure. I am not here to post 50 tickers and celebrate the ones that work. I am here to find the few names where the market is using the wrong frame. Old category. New asset. Messy transition. Right team. Massive demand pull. That is where the asymmetry usually lives.
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The Chairman's Ledger@ChairmansLedger·
Listen up folks. I’m not here to sell you anything. No course. No subscription. No paid group. Nothing. I’m also not here to sugarcoat things. I’m here for one reason: To help people see clearly. Without bias. Without anchoring. Without emotion. Without confusion. Why? Because it’s the surest way I know to make money. Take what is useful. Ignore what is not. Question the difference.
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Marco@theCFOInvestor·
The tricky part is that when people are first building, followers feel like validation and street cred. @ChairmansLedger ‘s “$100M+ exit” is already a form of validation. Others are still trying to earn that credibility in public, so they often chase the number as proof they’re worth listening to. That’s when the metric becomes the mission.
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leki ⚔️@mkfilko·
After being here for some time now. I have learnt a thing or two about follower / sub count, this was n interesting poll done by @ChairmansLedger : I’ll start off with Goodhart’s Law: “When a goal becomes a measure, it ceases to be a good measure” This means that follower is a good measure that what you’re doing is working, but it should ultimately never be the focus. Of course, it’s something nice to work towards, but how you do it matters a lot. Do you chase engagement as much as possible? Or do you choose a principled and grounded approach in your posts? The best is hitting both at the same time, but there’s a trade off more often than not. My belief and approach is: focus on the process, and the followers / sub will naturally come. This process includes sharing your own personal framework, ideas and analysis through a disciplined lens that justifies your beliefs; exchanging ideas / thoughts with like-minded people are also a huge part of this process; and also always keeping an open mind. I believe most people can discern who just likes to engagement farm vs someone who values quality / a disciplined approach over anything. This is why you won’t see me giving price targets like 5x in a month, see me spam tickers (easiest to do), or do an all-in challenge, amongst other things. And when I make comparisons (i.e this is the next $PLTR, $SIVE etc.), you can believe that I mean it and am not just saying it to hype things up unnecessarily. When I celebrate milestones, it’s really more a way for me to express my gratitude because never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that 13k people value my insights, and have about 200 be willing to support me through subs. So I want to say thanks for that. I hope you can learn more about me through this and I’m sure that many of my friends here also resonate with this! Thank you for reading. - Leki the investing monkey 🙈
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The harsh truth for FinTwit: People do not follow you because of your follower count. They follow you because they think your judgment is worth borrowing. The moment you start counting the crowd too loudly, you remind everyone that you might care more about the crowd than the standard.

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Ghost Whisperer
Ghost Whisperer@ichiro1992·
@ChairmansLedger Cost basis is for optics. Book value is for exponential compounding. You’ll never make more money if you stick with the initial share count on a position and refuse to size it up.
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The Chairman's Ledger@ChairmansLedger·
A lot of people asked about my entry prices after the portfolio post. Why? My cost basis does not matter to the thesis. Entry price is where your ego wants to anchor. Current price is what matters. Let’s be clear. If you own a stock, you are implicitly saying you are willing to own it at today’s price. Maybe not more of it, but at least the amount you already hold. If that is no longer true, you do not have conviction. You have a bias.
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The Chairman's Ledger@ChairmansLedger·
@GlennB22588 My take but unfortunately I don’t I include $MARA.
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Alright folks, here it is. The Chairman’s take on my favorite sector in public markets right now. The AI infra trade. It's getting crowded, for obvious reason. That doesn’t concern me. The issue isn’t that there are too many of them. It's that that people are treating them like they’re all the same. $IREN $NBIS $DGXX $CIFR $HUT $GLXY $APLD $HIVE $KEEL $BRUN $SLNH Here’s my take: The best company is not always the best stock. I like a lot of these names. $NBIS may be the better company long term. I have said that already. I still chose $IREN and $DGXX. Why? Because ruthlessly I’m not trying to own the best company. I’m trying to own the one with the best asymmetry that is the most mispriced today. $IREN: is the best vertically integrated AI infra landlord today. Scarce power, land, real execution, capital access, global footprint, $NVDA validation, and the clearest ability to turn energized sites into contracted compute capacity. $CIFR: scaling well, cap markets access, and real BTC to HPC momentum. $HUT: infra, power, balance sheet optionality. $GLXY: more diversified, institutional, and cap markets driven exposure to the AI infra / data center buildout. $APLD: one of the cleaner public AI data center infra stories. Real scale, real customers, but already much more discovered. $DGXX: earlier-stage compute infra asymmetry. Smaller, messier, less de-risked, but exactly why it’s interesting. $HIVE: global footprint and cleaner energy backed compute angle. $KEEL: earlier stage powered-site compute setup. $BRUN: proof that the market can reprice credible AI infra very quickly, even with a messy SPAC wrapper and some good standing questions. $SLNH: energy first infra with compute optionality. BTM makes it interesting. Now don’t come at me with the “ $NBIS is a better company bullshit” or “what about the $IREN ATM.” I have addressed both. If that’s your takeaway, you either didn’t read the post or worse, you didn’t understand it. I am not @jiahanjimliu, @FransBakker9812 or @Agrippa_Inv. I’m not trying to out-model everyone on GPU rental rates, exact contract terms or every DC nuance. My view is simple folks: Where is the most asymmetry? Where is the biggest bottleneck? Who can deliver capacity the fastest? Who has assets the market is still mispricing? That’s why I chose $IREN and $DGXX. $IREN is my core AI infra sleep tight at night bet. The market is somehow still debating whether it’s a miner or an HPC DC. That is why it’s an opportunity. $DGXX is my earlier stage $IREN bet. Less proven. Less institutional. Less obvious. That is the point. When it executes, the rerate will be violent because the market has not fully put it in the right box yet. This is all about choosing where I think the best risk-adjusted asymmetry sits today. Right now, I’m certain it’s $IREN and $DGXX.

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Glenn Bondarev
Glenn Bondarev@GlennB22588·
Question for you regarding your $IREN and HPC picks. I like $IREN and $NBIS, enough to invest in both. However, lately I am gravitating very hard to $MARA just as a highly undervalued play. They are sitting on 1.1 GW energized and they bought a 505 MW natural gas plant for like 1.5B, which is a big come up by today's energy prices. Not shilling, but I am curious why you do not rate them highly. You seem insightful so I'd like to hear your take.
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The Chairman's Ledger@ChairmansLedger·
Portfolio update: What I own and why. $IREN: AI’s biggest bottleneck is power and compute. Exposure to both through real assets. $ONDS: Autonomous defense platform across stratosphere, air, land and sea. Defense, offense, counter-drone, one-way attack, and battlefield comms that keep assets connected when normal networks fail. Civilian and military use cases in one stack. $ASTS: Space-based D2D cellular network. Cell towers moving from the ground to orbit. Starlink biggest competitor. $RKLB: Launch and space infrastructure. FedEx of space. They deliver payloads to orbit and build a lot of the parts and logistics behind it. $AMPG: Amplified signal for defense, satellites, radar, 5G and electronic warfare. Small hardware sitting inside very important comms systems. $DGXX: Compute and energy optionality. Early, messy, but pointed directly at the AI infrastructure bottleneck. $KRKNF: One of the biggest sleepers I own. Underwater drones, sonar and naval robotics in a market with very few serious players. Feels like a monopoly in parts of the stack. $MRLN: Autonomous AI pilot OS for aviation. Regulated, hard to deploy and trust heavy. The moat isn’t just code. It’s approvals, integration, flight data and operational reliability. $SIVE: Silicon photonics and mmWave. Bandwidth, wireless, satellites, defense comms and the physical layer behind AI. $ASPI: High purity isotope and element separation for quantum, nuclear, medical and strategic supply chains. Not advice. These are my positions, not instructions.
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Rockchalk Raider
Rockchalk Raider@rockchalkraider·
@ChairmansLedger The absolute best part of X is the people that willingly share their knowledge and experience just because they like to give back and help others….thank you
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The Chairman's Ledger@ChairmansLedger·
@TheBigBerbowski Very compelling. How do you think about the fit in a portfolio that is built for maximum asymmetry? Where does this sit on that spectrum?
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Rosanna Prestia, MBA
Rosanna Prestia, MBA@RosannaInvests·
Agree, cost basis is total ego because it’s a scorecard, not an input. It records who was early, who took the risk, who saw it first → all status, none of it in the forward math. The position has no memory of what you paid, and the only price that matters is today’s, because the return you have left to earn is priced from here, not from your basis. Investing is always about the FUTURE. But “would I buy it today” isn’t yes or no. It has a size. The real test is would I own this much, here, with fresh capital, against everything else. A ticker can pass “I still believe it” and fail “I’d size it here.” That gap is the whole discipline.
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The Chairman's Ledger@ChairmansLedger·
Exactly. Classic cobra problem. My fav story: A town had too many snakes, so the government paid people for every dead cobra they brought in. At first it worked. Then people realized the reward was easier to game than the problem was to solve, so they started breeding cobras making the problem exponentially worse. That’s what happens when the metric becomes the mission. Followers are useful feedback. But the moment follower count becomes the goal, you start breeding cobras.
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mon@moninvestor·
As a retail investor, you can wait as long as you want for a stock to do well. A professional fund manager can't. If their picks don't pay off fast enough, clients will pull their money and the manager can get fired. So the everyday investor's ability to just sit and wait is a real advantage. The catch is that it only works if you picked a genuinely good company.
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James Turner@R3DF4Man·
@ChairmansLedger I’m so glad I found you, really grateful for it, I just want to learn the right way. I want to teach my family and change the future
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Luc@investingluc·
@ChairmansLedger Just keep doing what you’re doing brotha
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Luc@investingluc·
Yo yo. Posting on X is 100x more than just trying to get more followers. For me it’s been access to top traders, jobs offers, convos with top pe/vc guys, networking with fintech founders, business opps, more $$$. I'm asking you to speak up.
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