Rank #470
Philippe Laffont
Net worth $7.9B
Hedge fund · United States
- Born
- Sep 16, 1967
- Age
- 58
- Source
- Hedge fund
- Residence
- New York, New York
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Net worth over time
Biography
- Philippe Laffont runs Coatue Management, a hedge fund and venture capital firm that focuses on technology-themed investing.
- Laffont founded Coatue Management in 1999. He is a so-called Tiger Cub, having spent time working at Julian Robertson's Tiger Management hedge fund.
- Coatue Management has $54 billion in assets under management.
- Coatue has invested in Tik Tok-parent Bytedance, Snapchat parent Snap and music streaming service Spotify, among many other companies.
- Laffont is a staunch proponent of artificial intelligence, and Coatue's largest public stockholdings include Nvidia, Broadcom, Meta and CoreWeave.