Bernard J. Snowden
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Bernard J. Snowden
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“Keep doing what you’re doing and you’ll be proud of it someday” | @mit alum | tracking markets https://t.co/ivivPmS94w




$BIRD is selling its brand and footwear assets renaming itself NewBird AI and using a new $50M convertible facility to pivot into AI compute infrastructure by buying GPUs. Going from selling wool sneakers to chasing AI compute might be one of the wildest pivots this cycle.


The Layer that has captured the most value so far has been Layer 5… I think the layers around it will capture more as more investment flows




The cool thing about ChatGPT is it makes fundamental research easier. A couple of months ago I asked GPT 5 to give me a “complete bottom up analysis of the Optics/Photonics Supply Chain”. Here’s what it gave me… Layer 0 — Raw Materials / Process Inputs Layer 1A — Fiber / Preform / Cable / Passive Connectivity Layer 1B — Photonic Wafers / Epi / Foundry / Packaging Platforms Layer 2 — Equipment / Test / Metrology Layer 3 — Merchant Silicon / DSP / SerDes / Analog Enablers Layer 4 — Optical Components / PIC Building Blocks Layer 5 — Modules / Transceivers / AOCs / Coherent Pluggables Layer 6 — Optical Assembly / ODM / EMS / Advanced Packaging Layer 7 — Line Systems / WDM / ROADM / Amplification / OLS Layer 8 — End Systems Once you get something like this you can then go deeper into each layer to find gems








