One of the biggest lessons I've learned from the recent volatility.

You're better off focusing on the long-term outcome because the faster you want to make money in the markets, the more likely you are to lose it faster.

The paradox of Investing.

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Affirm Holdings Inc - Class A

Grab Holdings Limited - Class A

Ambarella Inc

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Amplitude Inc - Class A

Celsius Holdings Inc

Confluent Inc Class A

Crowdstrike Holdings Inc - Class A

Datadog Inc - Class A

DLocal Limited Class A

LendingClub Corp

Monday.Com Ltd

Cloudflare Inc - Class A

UiPath Inc - Class A

Palantir Technologies Inc - Class A

Sea Ltd - ADR

Silvergate Capital Corp - Class A

SoFi Technologies Inc

Steel Dynamics Inc.

Upstart Holdings Inc

Upwork Inc

Zscaler Inc

Hello CommonStock!

Below are my portfolio holdings:

• $UPST
•$AFRM
• $UPWK
• $CRWD
• $PLTR
• $MAGT.TO
• $PATH
• $CFLT
• $AGC (Grab)

Portfolio 2:
• $SE
• $ZS
• $AMD
• $STLD
• $LC
• $AMBA
• $SI

Watchlist Companies:
• $AMPL
• $MNDY
• $DDOG
• $DLO
• $SOFI
• $CELH
• $NET

I'm looking forward to engaging with everyone to discuss Technology, Analytics platforms, Cloud, Improving as an Investor, and more!

Fortinet Inc

Microsoft Corporation

Palo Alto Networks Inc

SentinelOne Inc - Class A

This is a breakdown of the entire security industry:

The most popular sectors are Cloud Security and Endpoint protection security.

I am looking forward to the reports for each of these players within each category to extrapolate which sectors will grow the fastest.

Key companies to watch: $NET  $CRWD $S $FTNT $ZS $PANW $MSFT $PLTR

Hope this breakdown helps people!
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Cybersecurity Industry Breakdown: One of my focus for 2022 and Q4 Earnings Report

Bear markets expose investors who haven't put in the right amount of due diligence. As a result, stocks get returned back to their rightful owners.

What is Snowflake:

Snowflake is a cloud-agnostic data-warehouse company for centralizing all the data in a company. The platform is able to accommodate structured and unstructured data.

They have pioneered a data-cloud enabling customers to consolidate data into a single source of truth to drive meaningful business insights, build data-driven applications, and share data.

**Competitive Advantage:**
- Market Leader: Advanced storage and computing capabilities together over their competitors like Databricks who is focused on ML/Data science.
- Snowpark marketplace and data sharing capabilities that expands their already Large and growing Total Addressable market opportunity
- Wide-level integrations with multiple customers, partners and system integrators.
- Business Model: Consumption and usage-based model that enables ultimate flexibility for customers.

**Product Moat:**
1. Ease of use, speed, scalability, and performance
2. Unique and high switching costs due to the high cost of unlearning and disruption to business services once you have installed Snowflake
3. They have a defensible and differentiated technology stack with high barrier to entry.
4. The company has a cognitive referent brand within the data industry amongst consumers.

**Financial Metrics:**
1. Accelerating Revenue growth last 4-qtrs - (beat and raise): 117% > 110% > 105% > 110%
2. Margins:
- Gross Margins: 56% >  57% > 61% > 64%
- EBITDA Margin Losses: 105% > 90% > -74% > Now: -47%

3. Land & Expand: High Net Retention Metric in dollars and customers (Signals customers want the product)
- Customer Growth: 84% > 67% > 60% > 52%
- DBNRR: 168% > 168% > 169%  > 173%

In summary, Snowflake is a special company that represents an important future for Data and AI.

If interested, I did a past write-up:
[https://seekingalpha.com/article/4441421-snowflake-five-reasons-why-it-is-truly-special](https://seekingalpha.com/article/4441421-snowflake-five-reasons-why-it-is-truly-special)

Snowflake is the leading cloud-computing data warehouse company that will play an integral role in the future of AI. Read 5 reasons why SNOW stock is a buy.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4441421-snowflake-five-reasons-why-it-is-truly-special

Snowflake Stock: 5 Reasons Why It's Truly Special (NYSE:SNOW)

The Snowflake Thesis