Billionaire predicts ‘Fantastic 40’ companies by 2030, one surprise pick stands out
Billionaire predicts ‘Fantastic 40’ companies by 2030, one surprise pick stands out originally appeared on TheStreet.
Billionaire investor Philippe Laffont recently dropped a list of what he believes will be the “Fantastic 40” companies by 2030, including a surprising asset in the list.
Alongside popular giants such as Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Nvidia (Nasdaq: NVDA), Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), and Meta (Nasdaq: META), Laffont placed the world’s largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, too among his list of the “Fantastic 40” companies.
Laffont is the founder of the hedge fund and tech-focused venture capital firm Coatue Management, which has invested in crypto companies like on-chain analytics platform Dune Analytics, blockchain data platform Chainalysis, and crypto miner Hut 8 (Nasdaq: HUT).
The investor made the remarks while he appeared on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” show on June 25.
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The billionaire has often acknowledged that he missed the Bitcoin bus earlier and is rather late to the party. He once said that he wakes up at three in the morning and goes:
“What an idiot. Why didn’t I invest more in Bitcoin?”
While it might seem odd that Laffont put Bitcoin on par with some of the world’s most valuable companies, his assessment isn’t entirely off the mark.
If Bitcoin — with a market cap of $2.13 trillion — were an asset, it would be the world’s fifth-largest company behind Nvidia ($3.78 trillion), Microsoft ($3.69 trillion), Apple ($3 trillion), and Amazon ($2.3 trillion).
Laffont thinks Bitcoin’s market cap could potentially grow more than twice to over $5 trillion by 2030. Interestingly, he didn’t even include Apple and Alphabet (Nasdaq: GOOGL) in his “Fantastic 40” companies list.
As per Kraken’s price feed, Bitcoin was trading at $107,511.08 at press time, up 77% a year.
Billionaire predicts ‘Fantastic 40’ companies by 2030, one surprise pick stands out first appeared on TheStreet on Jun 26, 2025
This story was originally reported by TheStreet on Jun 26, 2025, where it first appeared.
