Technology-focused investment firm that invests in public and private markets, founded by Philippe Laffont, with offices in New York and Menlo Park.
“ what can I actually compartmentalize in a way that we can understand and evaluate? Because that's what I'm hill climbing against, right? Otherwise, I'm just tuning these things.” Frank Long Works at Coatue · Practitioner
Context. Long is describing how to break an investing process into parts that can each be tested.
Talk: AI Agents Will Upend Investing Even More Than Coding - Frank Long, Coatue , AI Engineer (YouTube) , November 6, 2026, at 11:47 .
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“ And just as importantly, we have a culture that is super, super rigorous and built from the ground up to capture all this insight. For decades, we filed every single note about every single trade, about every … decision we made or didn't make, about what went well and what didn't go well. And that's poised us to expose us to AI.” Frank Long Works at Coatue · Practitioner
Context. Long is describing the firm's internal context, the records an AI system can draw on.
Talk: AI Agents Will Upend Investing Even More Than Coding - Frank Long, Coatue , AI Engineer (YouTube) , November 6, 2026, at 03:00 .
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“ So this probably understates the complexity. The reality is most things are multi-runner. Most things have deterministic code plus LLM plus statistical method, or human with LLM in conjunction.” Frank Long Works at Coatue · Practitioner
Context. Long has just walked through gathering, filtering and summarizing news as one small step of the investing function.
Talk: AI Agents Will Upend Investing Even More Than Coding - Frank Long, Coatue , AI Engineer (YouTube) , November 6, 2026, at 10:52 .
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“ And I think this is like a super, super important point. There is no glory in automating things for the sake of automating things. The goal is not to take as many things and make them … as possible for us. The goal is for any given piece of this function, what can I do to maximize absolute quality?” Frank Long Works at Coatue · Practitioner
Context. Long is explaining how his firm decides what to hand to a language model and what to leave to code or people.
Talk: AI Agents Will Upend Investing Even More Than Coding - Frank Long, Coatue , AI Engineer (YouTube) , November 6, 2026, at 09:05 .
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“ And, of course, people, people are important runners in the system, right? So imagine a function meeting the management team of a company. … I probably don't want to send an if statement into that meeting. I think there's many cases where, because of judgment and the ability to navigate the real world, and all of these things, a person is the best runner for a given piece of the function.” Frank Long Works at Coatue · Practitioner
Context. Long has just listed code, statistics and language models as the ways to carry out each step of the investing function.
Talk: AI Agents Will Upend Investing Even More Than Coding - Frank Long, Coatue , AI Engineer (YouTube) , November 6, 2026, at 08:35 .
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