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Philippe Laffont, a Frenchman, is the founder and portfolio manager of Coatue Management, a renowned technology-focused hedge fund and venture capital investor.

He was born around 1969 and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1991 with a B.S.

in Economics and M.Sc. in Computer Science.

Laffont worked as an analyst at McKinsey & Company in Madrid, Spain, from 1992 to 1994, before joining Tiger Management LLC as a research analyst in 1996, specializing in telecommunications stocks.

In 1999, Laffont established Coatue Management, joining the ranks of Tiger Cubs, former employees of Julian Robertson's Tiger Management who founded their own hedge funds.

Coatue Management launched its first hedge fund in 1999 with $45 million in capital, and as of recent records, the firm manages over $70 billion in assets.

He envisioned working for Apple as a teenager but was rejected five times by the company.

Despite this, he became a prominent investor later