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Leopold Aschenbrenner Favorite Neoclouds In 2026: $CRWV +18%🟢 $IREN +35%🟢 $APLD +19%🟢 $RIOT +87%🟢 $CLSK +648%🟢 $BITF +188%🟢 $BTDR +92%🟢


SpaceX $SPCX is planning to go public on June 12. It's the biggest IPO in history and will instantly reprice the entire space sector. These are the key space sectors to watch: Launch Service Providers $RKLB Rocket Lab $FLY Firefly Aerospace Space Imaging $PL Planet Labs $SATL Satellogic $GSAT Globalstar $BKSY BlackSky Technology $SPIR Spire Global $HAWK HawkEye 360 Satellite Communications $ASTS AST SpaceMobile $GSAT Globalstar $SIDU Sidus Space $SATS EchoStar $IRDM Iridium Communications $ETL Eutelsat $TSAT Telesat $GILT Gilat Satellite Networks $VSAT Viasat Space Infrastructure $RDW Redwire Space $LUNR Intuitive Machines $MDA MDA Space $VOYG Voyager Space $YSS York Space Systems Speciality Materials $CRS Carpenter Technology $MTRN Materion $HXL Hexcel $ATI ATI $GLW Corning $PKE Park Aerospace Aerospace & Defense $RTX RTX Corporation $LMT Lockheed Martin $KTOS Kratos Defense & Security $VOYG Voyager Space $LHX L3Harris Technologies $NOC Northrop Grumman $BA Boeing $AIR Airbus $HO Thales Space Components $TDY Teledyne Technologies $APH Amphenol $KRMN Karman Space $RBC RBC Bearings $PH Parker Hannifin $AME AMETEK $VELO Velo3D $GHM Graham $HEI Heico $DCO Ducommun $ATRO Astronics


Some of you know that I launched a hedge fund several months ago (early November). We run a long/short strategy, focused on owning the 20-40 growth stocks that we believe have the most upside over the next 2-3 years... this means they need to have great fundamentals, strong management teams, compelling valuations, and multiple catalysts that we can identify and track accordingly. It's been a rough few months for many growth investors (we also took some pain)... thankfully we were averaging down into our core positions but we've still seen some red months and it has not been enjoyable. I'm not a fan of losing money. Stepping back... I've never had more conviction in my process or my portfolio than I do right now... especially with some of my favorite stocks down 20-40% from their September/October/November highs despite strong Q4 earnings reports, strong CY2026 guidance and extremely compelling valuations. With that said, here are our top 10 positions in alphabetical order: $APP $CPNG $CRDO $HIMS $HROW $SKHYNIX $IREN $NBIS $RDDT $TMDX I believe all of these stocks are trading at meaningfully higher prices in 2-3 years which remains my focus for generating outsized long-term returns. Enjoy the rest of your day 😊 NFA. DYOR. ** @FirstWaveFund owns all of the stocks mentioned in this post.









Update: Leopold's tracker continues to fly Start of May: $9,000,000 Today: $27,000,000 The Leopold Aschenbrenner tracker in two months is currently up ~73% According to his recent filings, he entered the year managing $5.29B That portfolio is now expected to have nearly doubled

I still own $IREN because I think the market is underestimating both the $NVDA alignment and how hard its power footprint is to replicate. If the company can turn ~5 GW of secured power into Nvidia-aligned AI cloud capacity then the market may start valuing the 10x gap between its power base and near-term AI cloud needs.



THE COMPUTE CAPACITY BOTTLENECK $GOOGL just admitted Google Cloud is leaving revenue on the table because it cannot build capacity fast enough with shifts the bottleneck to companies with the power, real estate & operational scale to deploy AI compute: 1. $NBIS building the AI-native cloud layer through vertically integrated GPU clusters & software optimized for training + inference. $NVDA just wrote wrote a $2B check & Nebius now has a $46B contracted backlog, anchored by ~$19B $MSFT deal & ~$27B Meta partnership through 2032. 2. $IREN building the renewable-powered AI compute layer by turning low-cost power into GPU cloud capacity. The pivot to AI cloud is now backed by a ~$10B $MSFT contract, 2.9 GW of grid-connected power expanding to 4.5 GW+ & targeted 140K GPU buildout that could drive $3.4B of ARR by year-end 2026. 3. $DOCN building the agentic inference cloud layer for developers & long-tail AI workloads. AI customer ARR is up 150% YoY to $120M, over 70% comes from inference services & $1M+ customer ARR is up 123% to $133M. 4. $CRWV building the dedicated AI cloud platform for frontier model developers. The company has ~$67B of contracted revenue backlog (nearly $88B including Anthropic) with major commitments from OpenAI & Meta. 5. $CIFR building the Google-backed AI data center layer through contracted power & hyperscale leases. Barber Lake has 300 MW fully contracted with Fluidstack (Google backstops $1.4B with a ~5% equity stake) and AWS signed a separate $5.5B 15-year deal for another 300 MW of capacity. 6. $WULF building the power-backed AI compute layer through long-term data center leases. Lake Mariner has 360 MW tied to Fluidstack backed by a $3.2B Google guarantee & new Abernathy JV adds 168 MW over 25 years representing $9.5B in contracted revenue with $1.3B of Google lease support. 7. $APLD building the purpose-built AI data center layer through its Polaris Forge 1 campus in North Dakota. The full 400 MW critical IT load is contracted to CoreWeave under ~15-year leases worth ~$11B in expected revenue with first 100 MW delivered in Q4 2025 & another 300 MW targeted through 2027.






