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Zebra
58
Community
59
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Gap
Crowd vs Zebra
+1
- WealthZ 86 · C 75-11
- MobilizeZ 75 · C 85+10
- InfluenceZ 95 · C 98+3
- InfoZ 75 · C 72-3
Deploy Appaloosa capital into markets and deals
Our read: the mandate is beating peers on returns while keeping LPs and regulators comfortable with concentration.
Receipts
- Deploy Appaloosa capital into markets and dealsAmerica MZ100 seed card — replace with sourced receipt when researched
Watch for Fund closes, fee pressure, and headline drawdowns.
Keep finance rules favourable
Tax, disclosure, and banking rules define what strategies are even legal to run at size.
Receipts
- Keep finance rules favourableAmerica MZ100 seed card — replace with sourced receipt when researched
Watch for SEC/CFTC rulemakings and capital-gains or carried-interest fights.
Receipts are sourced. The read is ours. You decide.
Dry powder at scale
Appaloosa can move markets when it enters or exits a name.
Receipts
- Dry powder at scaleAmerica MZ100 seed card — replace with sourced receipt when researched
How it compounds · Reputation for size pulls deal flow before competitors see it.
Boardroom and policy access
Portfolio companies and political donations create a dense contact graph.
Receipts
- Boardroom and policy accessAmerica MZ100 seed card — replace with sourced receipt when researched
Macro and liquidity shocks
Leverage and illiquid books amplify drawdowns when credit tightens.
Receipts
- Macro and liquidity shocksAmerica MZ100 seed card — replace with sourced receipt when researched
What it constrains · Redemption gates and LP nerves can force sales at the wrong time.
Activist and media targeting
Large positions become political symbols — scrutiny scales with AUM.
Receipts
- Activist and media targetingAmerica MZ100 seed card — replace with sourced receipt when researched
Watch · Congressional hearings and campaign ads naming the firm.
David Tepper allocates capital in public view. We read discipline and risk appetite from stated strategy and portfolio moves, not clinical terms.
Behavioural dimensions
Risk tolerance
uncertain
Leverage, concentration, and willingness to fight management.
Time horizon
uncertain
Hold periods vs rapid trading or activism.
Public profile
uncertain
How often personal narrative leads the firm story.
Possible drivers
Possible driver: Information and timing edge
Our read: David Tepper optimises for seeing inflection points before consensus — in markets and deals and in Washington.
The behaviour underneath
- Information and timing edgeAmerica MZ100 seed card — replace with sourced receipt when researched
Would change our mind Sudden strategy pivots or public political endorsements tied to portfolio themes.
Not a diagnosis. Nobody here has examined David, and no clinical term appears in this section. This is an interpretation of public behaviour by people who are not their doctor. We publish it because when this much power sits with one person, what drives them stops being a private matter — not to excuse anything, and not to explain it away.
Employees
Direct payroll
Direct / controlled payroll (seed estimate)
200
Influence
Media / platform
Media / platform audience (seed estimate)
15M
Sales / customers
Appaloosa clients / LPs (seed)
10K
Politicians
Political money out
Political spending / donations (seed estimate — verify FEC)
$30M
Politicians / races backed
races / candidates
20
Appaloosa
Owner
Carolina Panthers
Owner
Net worth
$20B
$20 billion·$20,000,000,000
As of Sep 2, 2026
MZ100 research estimate (Sep 2026) — not live Forbes scrape
80.00 billion bananas at $0.25 each
Each banana here ≈ $149.3M · 597.01 million bananas
Rough prices for scale — not part of the score.
Not researched for this profile yet.