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THE NUMBERS ARE SCREAMING. USER GROWTH? 6%. AD IMPRESSIONS? 11%. PRICE PER AD? 9%. IT’S A MELTDOWN OF SUCCESS, AND ZUCKERBERG IS SITTING THERE WITH A SMIRK, LIKE HE JUST INVENTED FIRE USING A LENS MADE OF GLASS AND DREAMS. HIS AI INVESTMENTS? A FORTRESS OF CONVERSIONS, DRIVING 5% MORE CLICKS ON INSTAGRAM AND 3% ON FACEBOOK. THIS ISN’T JUST TECHNOLOGY—IT’S A WAR ON INATTENTION, AND META IS WINNING WITH A GUN IN ONE HAND AND A CHAINSAW IN THE OTHER.

The land of artificial intelligence is vast and unyielding, a frontier where giants tread and small hands claw for footholds. Investors, like parched wanderers, seek streams of growth and the shelter of a moat. Palantir, with its tools of data organization, has carved a canyon in this terrain. It began as a contractor for the government, a place where secrets are currency and contracts are written in ink and fear. Now, it stretches its tendrils into the commercial world, where the soil is richer but the storms fiercer. Here, its commercial arm grows at a rate that outpaces even its own shadow, rising 71% in the first quarter of 2025—though whether this is a harvest or a fever remains to be seen.

Had you entrusted $1,000 to this fledgling enterprise, you would now possess $3,350. A modest triumph, one might say, though hardly the stuff of legend. Yet if you had reinvested dividends—a discipline requiring both patience and surrender—you would command $4,105. This, dear reader, is not mere arithmetic but a parable of compounding, that quiet alchemy of time and reinvestment.

So, let’s set aside the comforting tedium of spreadsheets for a cosmic ramble through five technology stocks that are outgrowing their trousers by at least 25% per year. (And yes, I do realise trousers don’t technically grow, but given current market volatility, who’s to say what won’t happen next?).