
Lawn Chair Capital
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Lawn Chair Capital
@LawnChairCap
Current PE Operator | ex-LMM PE | ex-IB | washed-Ivy League Athlete | Asymmetric Investor | Currently $IQE $OSS Focused | Path to $1M





Something isn’t right, and you know it.







Credo $CRDO is acquiring silicon photonics company DustPhotonics for $750M in cash plus about 0.92M shares, with additional earnout shares tied to milestones. The deal should help lift its combined optical revenue to more than $500M in fiscal 2027.










Photonics is real but the easy trade is gone. $LITE, $AAOI, $COHR already priced the obvious bottleneck (lasers, transceivers). Great businesses… but crowded and expectations are stretched. I’m looking one layer deeper.. for example $MTSI, $MRVL quietly taking a cut of every bandwidth upgrade without the same crowding. Then it gets more interesting. $AEHR is the picks-and-shovels angle most people still underestimate. If SiPh ramps, testing demand isn’t optional. Everyone talks chips, nobody talks where photonics is actually built $TSEM.. $POET, $ALMU.. high upside, but still early. Execution risk is real, timelines slip, and the market won’t be patient forever. $CIEN, $FN, $GLW.. boring, but they win if this scales. No story needed. And if CPO actually hits? The real upside probably isn’t even public yet. Everyone’s chasing what worked… I think the next move is one layer deeper.



