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Meditation Capital 2023 Q1 Investor Letter | Buyside Digest

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Primary Source Intelligence • Q1 2023 Letter Analysis

Meditation Capital Quarterly Analysis

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Fund Returns

Positioning StanceConstructive

GeographyUS

Digest Analysis

Quick Take

"Meditation Capital maintains disciplined focus on companies with exceptional products and high terminal value confidence. With recession risks mounting, they're preserving capital while targeting 4-year 30%+ IRR opportunities."

Executive Summary

Meditation Capital continues executing their strategy of investing in companies with amazing products while deepening research to grow monetizable conviction. With cash yielding 5% and recession risks looming, manager Tim Liu is intensely focused on capital preservation and leveraging potential downturns for attractive entry points. The fund targets 4-year 30%+ IRR opportunities but finds most current opportunities in the high-teens to low-20s range, which they consider insufficient given current risks. Their conviction-based approach was tested through the Okta investment, where growing doubts about Microsoft's competitive advantages led to an early exit at a modest loss rather than holding for what would have been significant gains. This experience reinforced their philosophy of only investing in companies with amazing products where they have high confidence in terminal value 5-10 years out. The manager emphasizes balancing deep research with constant risk awareness, conducting 244 expert calls annually while maintaining humility about the fog of war in public markets. They made several new investments in the quarter but are not ready to share details yet.

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Signal Matrix

Market Conviction

68%

CautiousHigh

Moderate (68%)

Manager demonstrates high conviction in their philosophy and process, with detailed discussion of specific investment decisions like Okta exit and avoidance of CRWD/S/GTLB. However, the absence of named current positions and focus on process over specific holdings caps the score below 0.75.

Growth Outlook

30%

BearishBullish

Bearish (30%)

Manager describes economic clouds darkening with potential recession looming, creating an overall cautious market outlook despite seeing some opportunities in a downturn.

Risk Appetite

40%

DefensiveAggressive

Defensive (40%)

Portfolio is positioned defensively with focus on capital preservation, high cash yields of 5%, and selective deployment only for exceptional opportunities meeting 30%+ IRR thresholds.

Capital Deployment

43%

De-riskingDeploying

Net Neutral (43%)

Manager made a few new investments but exited Okta, emphasizes capital preservation, and maintains high cash yields while waiting for better opportunities, indicating modest net de-risking.

Forward Guidance

45%

CautiousExpansionary

Neutral (45%)

Manager indicates they would buy aggressively if they found 30%+ IRR opportunities but are currently finding most opportunities insufficient, suggesting cautious deployment bias.

Language Signal

35%

BearishBullish

Bearish (35%)

Language emphasizes risks, capital preservation, economic clouds darkening, recession concerns, and being tested through drawdowns, outweighing limited bullish language about attractive entry points.

Perceived Risk

72%

Low RiskElevated

Elevated Risk (72%)

Manager explicitly discusses multiple risk factors including potential recession, economic clouds darkening, price-narrative psychology risks, and competitive threats from Microsoft, with detailed risk analysis throughout the letter.

Opportunity Density

35%

ScarceAbundant

Selective (35%)

Manager states most opportunities in their universe are currently in high-teens to low-20s IRR range which they consider not good enough, indicating sparse opportunities meeting their standards.

Time Horizon

78%

Short-TermLong-Term

Decade+ (78%)

Manager explicitly focuses on companies that will become much bigger businesses 5-10 years from now regardless of near-term conditions, with emphasis on terminal value over short-term performance.