The hedge fund Situational Awareness, which nearly collapsed, is already receiving new investor capital because wealthy investors operate under different rules than retail traders and always get second chances.
The hosts discuss how a hedge fund that nearly blew up is attracting new money, contrasting this with how a retail investor with $5,000 in a Robinhood account would be labeled a degenerate for similar losses. ✦ AI generated
Michael Batnick · The Compound · 2026-08-12 · original ↗
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Investors clamor to bet on AI whiz kid's fund after situational awareness turnover tur- turmoil. Uh Hey, they use wunderkind in here again. A week after the hedge fund blew up nearly blew up, he's already getting requests from investors looking to place more money with the artificial intelligence wunderkind. Apparently, he says uh he's not taking new money yet. Uh and then this guy from Sequoia says, 'Our suspicion is that he's going to be a fixture in Silicon Valley for a long time to come.' And that's why like people are backing this guy and trying to give him more money.
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22:58and they got margin called, you'd say, "Oh, that person is a degenerate." But, if you do it with billionaire money, guess what? They're a risk-taker. No, that's that's that's where like wealthy people, wealthy investors, and degenerates are kind of the same. And this is one of the like the wealthy person though, the difference is they get a second chance. A lot of the degenerate gamblers might if they get wiped out, they might not
23:20get a second chance. So, this is from Bloomberg. Did you like my comparison there? Did that make sense? >> I'm with you. Yeah, not bad. >> Kind of landed, right? Investors clamor to bet on AI whiz kid's fund after situational awareness turnover tur- turmoil. Uh Hey, they use wunderkind in here again. A week after the hedge fund blew up nearly blew up, he's already getting requests from investors looking to place
23:41more money with the artificial intelligence wunderkind. Apparently, he says uh he's not taking new money yet. Uh and then this guy from Sequoia says, "Our suspicion is that he's going to be a fixture in Silicon Valley for a long time to come." And that's why like people are backing this guy and trying to give him more money. And this is just what >> or maybe he's the Ben Simmons of
24:01finance. >> What? Never reaches his potential? >> Yeah, just never to return. >> I mean, don't I don't want to get too cute here, but isn't the whole thing this guy used to work at OpenAI, and he's married to someone who's very high up at Anthropic, and people are hoping that they just get connections through him? Like hey, if he if he if he loses his money, fine, but we get the we get
24:24the spouse of someone who was very high up at Anthropic. And that's all that matters. >> So, it's we're all we're speculating here. Why would somebody invest in him because he's married to Dario's uh chief of Is it chief of staff? >> I think so. >> But why would somebody invest with him because of that alone? >> I don't know, cuz VC people, they care about connections and networking and
24:45such. But this was this was really easy to You and I talked about last week. Of course, people are going to give him more money. >> Yeah. >> Give him a second chance. That was obvious. >> Mhm. >> Again, the poor person though who blows up the Robinhood account, they're not getting a second chance. >> All right, we got it. We got it. >> [laughter] >> All right.