Sameer Shah
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Sameer Shah
@sameervq
Co-Founder and Fund Manager at ValueQuest Investment Advisors



Kicking off ValueQuest Investor Day - Vantage 2026. Looking forward to engaging with our investors as we share perspetives on our funds platform and large emerging themes. Stay tuned for highlights from the sessions. @ravidharamshi77 @sameervq #Vantage2026 #PEInvestorDay #ValueQuest #StayTuned







660 billion dollars of Capex this year on AI data centers. To put a number like that in perspective this is more than what we spent on the U.S. interstate highway system (630 billion), more than what we spent on the Apollo Moon Program (257 billion), more than what we spent on the international space station (150 billion). This is more money than Walmart’s revenue for last year ($648 billion), it’s about 25% of ALL Military spending globally, it’s equivalent to buying 50 Gerald R. ford class aircraft carriers. It’s the equivalent of spending $1.8 billion dollars a day, $75 million dollars an hour, $1.2 million dollars a minute. This year alone is without a DOUBT, THE BIGGEST PROJECT IN THE HISTORY OF CAPITALISM. And we are spending all of it …. In on year. God save us.

I had the privilege to speak on The Art of Selling at the 8th #VIPS by @CFASocietyIndia. 🎥 Watch the full session & download the PDF presentation: 🔗youtube.com/watch?v=w6A9uK… 📄oaklanecapital.com/wp-content/upl… Key Theme: "Practicing value investing without a selling framework is like Abhimanyu in the Chakravyuh—you can check in anytime you like, but you can never leave… 🎶 Hotel California (Eagles)." 💡 Key Takeaways from the Session: 📈 Marry your stocks, but have a prenuptial agreement in place. ⏱️ Exit is as important as entry—if not more. 🎯 Who controls the exit—you or the market? 🧠 Overcoming biases is easier said than done. 🔄 Selling isn’t a "one-size-fits-all" decision. It’s the blind spot for most investors. 📉 Careful buyers, but careless sellers—many reasons to sell, only one reason to buy. 🪞 Exit reasons are often a mirror image of buy reasons. 🏦 Time horizon, risk mandate, and capital stability play a critical role in the sell decision. 💡 Buy & Hold ≠ Buy & Forget. Constant reassessment is key. ⚔️ You can only play offense if your defense permits it—strong portfolios require strategic exits. 🐘 Learn to navigate the Investing Zoo—investors behave like ostriches, bulls, bears, elephants, and even pigs! 🚨 When the stock goes beyond your initial thesis, it’s time to revalidate your hypothesis. 🧩 Capital misallocation can be a major risk—diversification isn’t always the solution. 📊 Selling is where legends are made, yet it remains the dark continent of investing. Let’s make selling less emotional and more calculated.

This is probably the single best context about India in the new world, you will hear from a business point of view.


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ByteDance offered $30 million for Xiao Hong's AI startup in early 2024. He said no. Twenty months later, he sold to Meta for $3 billion. The difference: He relocated to Singapore, laid off his entire Beijing team, bought out Tencent, and severed every Chinese tie before the acquisition. 100x return on geopolitical arbitrage. The playbook is now public. Beijing's response: "frustration" that America "is walking away with technology built by Chinese engineers." But by the time they noticed, it was already too late. Here's what nobody's saying: The export controls designed to contain Chinese AI may be accelerating brain drain instead. The most talented Chinese AI founders now have a template. Build in Beijing. Exit through Singapore. Sell to America. One startup just rewrote how Chinese innovation reaches global markets. The exodus is coming. Read the full story here - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
