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Asit Sharma

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642 total appearances

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The stock does trade at a premium.

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It fails the COLA test.

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If you snapped your fingers, would the world miss Astera Labs?

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Most people have never heard of this company.

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Right now, the answer is, yes, it fails it.

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No one would miss this business.

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But could it become more important with this Compute Express Link technology I mentioned?

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Yes.

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Companies like Nvidia are very interested to see that platform developed.

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I would urge anyone who wants to invest in this to do your homework, and maybe dollar-cost average in, take a rational position size.

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I love this question, Jason, because I think this is a question we need to ask of almost every company that we invest in that is getting a tailwind from all this buildout.

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The answer is that Astera's technology is going to be important either way.

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I think there's a place for this company, even if

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the promise build-out doesn't materialize to the nth degree.

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We should remember here, and I should have mentioned this earlier, it does have a high concentration of customers.

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Just a handful of these big hyperscalers and big semiconductor players will make up 70% plus of revenue in any given quarter.

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That may be spread between three or four companies.

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For the time being, it's concentrated in this idea.

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But as the years go on, it's going to become less concentrated.

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And also, I think either way, it's still going to be around.