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13 Apr, 9 tweets, 4 min read
1/ Honored to bring Grab public w/ @altcap @Chris_Conforti on the Altimeter Capital Markets platform.

This is an iconic ~$40B company and we're so excited to be partners to @AnthonyPY_Tan in their journey!

grab.com/sg/press/other…
2/ Southeast Asia is home to 670M people, one of the fastest growing economies, and still early innings in digitizing.

Online GDP penetration remains single digits in the region – a fraction of the US and China.

And Grab is by far the market leader.
3/ Grab is THE daily super app used by 25M people – and touches everyday lives across transport, food and payments.

They have built the clear market leader w/ 70%+ share in ride hail and 50% share in food delivery.
4/ Their super app results in a flywheel that drives superior economics.

Consumers use Grab to order breakfast, commute to work, shop for groceries, and pay their bills.

Lower cost of acquisition + higher lifetime value.

Cohorts by Year 5 are spending 3.6x more.
5/ Grab plays a key role in driving Southeast Asia forward.

They provide flexible employment to millions, fuel entrepreneurship in the region, and democratize financial access.

Through covid - Grab has been instrumental in distributing vaccines / government relief funds.
6/ Grab is just scratching the surface in financial services – a massive opportunity.

70%+ of the population lacks access to traditional banks.

They are the leader in payments, insurance, lending and investments - with the most licenses across 6 diverse countries.
7/ Importantly, exceptional teams emerge stronger from crises – and Grab certainly did.

Covid patterns like delivery, digital payments are turning into post covid habits.

Ride hail is rapidly recovering – and incredibly profitable with 60% margins (well above peers like Uber).
8/ In Grab – we see the best of Uber, DoorDash, Square and Ant Financial - with a tremendous opportunity ahead.

Hyper growth at scale with a powerful ecosystem, excellent cohorts, leading margins.

+ Massive new markets to light up in financial services / local commerce.
9/ At Altimeter – we’ve worked with Grab to assemble a set of world class, Day 1, public shareholders.

$4B+ PIPE
$750M from Altimeter
+ leading mutual / sovereign funds

Thrilled to be long-term partners to Anthony / Grab, and excited for the journey ahead!

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11 Jan
Thoughts on common misconceptions about “value” vs “growth” investing.

Learnings from letters over the years by Buffett, Oaktree, and Third Point - and my own investing career.

Thread below 👇
1/ Many think “value” investing must mean buying low-multiple stocks (e.g. 12x P/E).

However high growth companies and value are not mutually exclusive.

Whether a stock is a bargain or not, depends on its valuation in context of its growth rate.
2/ Howard Marks at Oaktree has a letter out today - where he writes about this “False Dichotomy of Value and Growth”.

Worth a read and highly recommend.

He mentions that Buffett has famously said "we don't consider ourselves to be value investors".

oaktreecapital.com/docs/default-s…
Read 10 tweets
1 Dec 20
1/ Back in 2014, eBay was the 2nd largest ecom player in the US, with over 10% share.

But that has slowly eroded over the years...

Read more below on my takeaways 👇

And read throughs to the rise of Shopify, DoorDash, and Shopee vs incumbent marketplaces.
2/ eBay GMV has barely grown from 2014-19, hovering between $30-35B.

Meanwhile US ecom doubled from $300B to $600B+
3/ In fact, Shopify overtook eBay in market share last year.

2019 US Share
-> 5.9% Shopify
-> 5.7% eBay (before re-statement)
Read 8 tweets
3 Oct 20
Many investors believe they need some type of highly differentiated insight to generate great returns in the market.

This can be a source of returns, but in my view doesn’t have to be. More below 👇
1/ There are two types of key bets that growth investors make –

A) New product adoption or inflection
B) Growth durability
2/ Correctly calling new product adoption or inflection is hard. There are exceptional investors that do this well. But this often requires decades of experience and pattern matching.

Fortunately, growth durability is a (relatively) easier bet one can make. Some examples:
Read 12 tweets
29 Sep 20
@CashApp has been one of the most remarkable companies in fintech and often underfollowed. Currently worth $30B+ in value, with $1.5B+ run-rate revenue. Read more below 👇
1/ Cash App launched in 2013. The service was free with virtually no monetization.

Most investors (including myself) didn’t understand what Jack Dorsey was building then.
2/ Jack saw an opportunity to democratize financial services for the underbanked. Cash App used free P2P as the flywheel to bring on consumers. They were savvy with marketing through social media, influencers, and music artists to gain virality in the early days.
Read 10 tweets
24 Sep 20
@stripe is building the @amazon of payments. Let’s take a step back and look at the big picture 🧐
1/ Both addressing all of commerce spend, one of the largest TAMs in the world. Levered to secular ecom growth horizontally and neither take on single vertical risk.
2/ Started by focusing on SMB merchants in a targeted way and doing this 5-10x better vs incumbents.
Read 9 tweets
24 Sep 20
My thoughts on the rise of fintech giants and payment infrastructure, a thread 👇
1/ Many investors look at the $1Tn+ of value created by fintech giants – @Visa ($400B), @Mastercard ($300B), @PayPal ($200B), @Square ($65B), @stripe ($60B) and @Adyen ($55B) – and think they’ve missed the boat. In fact, the best decade is yet ahead.
2/ There are few other industries tackling at $30Tn+ global TAM with the scale, ecosystem, and network effects these businesses have. Card payments remain <50% penetrated globally, and ecom is only ~15% of spend (even post-covid).
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