{"id":92901,"date":"2026-07-02T04:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/92901\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T04:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:37:07","slug":"5-of-dan-ives-biggest-calls-and-power-outfits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/92901\/","title":{"rendered":"5 of Dan Ives’ Biggest Calls and Power Outfits"},"content":{"rendered":"

For many, Wedbush Securities has become synonymous with Dan Ives<\/a>: the charismatic, media-savvy tech analyst known for his peacock-esque personal style,<\/a> colorful metaphors, and plentiful emojis to describe tech’s biggest moments.<\/p>\n

Now, after eight years at the firm, Ives said he’s leaving for a new chapter.<\/p>\n

“I have truly enjoyed my time at Wedbush and proud of all we accomplished as a great tech franchise with awesome people across the board,” he said in a widely shared email on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

He told Bloomberg that he’s leaving to launch a merchant bank \u2014 a bank primarily serving large corporations and high-net-worth individuals. The company will focus on sectors such as technology, energy, infrastructure, and financials, he said.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the tech mega bull’s most famous calls \u2014 and some of the suit eschewer’s punchiest outfits over the years.<\/p>\n

1. Apple isn’t just a hardware company<\/p>\n

Between 2016 and 2018, Ives hyped Apple’s transformation<\/a>, saying that investors were only thinking of it as a hardware company and missing the value of the app store and services.<\/p>\n

By 2020, Apple’s services revenue had doubled. It’s now a major driver of its $4.3 trillion valuation.<\/p>\n

2. Microsoft’s AI win<\/p>\n

Immediately after OpenAI released ChatGPT in November 2022, Ives argued that Microsoft would be the biggest beneficiary of enterprise AI<\/a>. This is because the company embedded AI across services like Office and Copilot, and because of infrastructure spend on Azure.<\/p>\n

Microsoft’s stock roughly doubled over the next two-plus years.<\/p>\n

3. Nvidia will be king<\/p>\n

When many investors still viewed Nvidia primarily as a gaming chip company, Ives argued that AI infrastructure spending<\/a> would create unprecedented demand for the company’s products.<\/p>\n

Ives’ early thesis was that every major company would need Nvidia chips to build its AI.<\/p>\n

Ives was spot on. Since 2023, hyperscalers have committed hundreds of billions of dollars to AI infrastructure, making Nvidia one of the world’s most valuable companies.<\/p>\n

4. Pink on pink on pink suit<\/p>\n

\"Dan<\/p>\n

Ives is rocking a pink top to bottom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NASDAQ: ORBS)<\/p>\n

Ives rocked one of his most iconic outfits \u2014 a coral pink baseball cap and sports jacket with baby-pink pants and shoes \u2014 when he rang the Opening Bell for Eightco Holdings Inc (ticker: $ORBS) at the Nasdaq in September.<\/p>\n

He chaired the company’s board until March.<\/p>\n

Last August, Ives launched a clothing brand reflecting his unique style in collaboration with the Brooklyn-based upcycled streetwear label Snow Milk.<\/p>\n

5. Jacket-on-hoodie looks<\/p>\n

\"Dan<\/p>\n

Ives almost always matches his jackets to his sneakers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

$ORBS)<\/p>\n

At another Orbs event in October, the tech bull wore a neon printed blazer under a colorful green hoodie. In his signature style, he paired it with multicolored sneakers that almost exactly matched his jacket.<\/p>\n

He also wore it with a printed baseball cap and sunglasses. Yes, the event was indoors.<\/p>\n

“It’s definitely played a role in the global success, because of the way that I dress,” he told Business Insider in September. “Even people who don’t know my stock calls, they know me as the person who wears the funky shirts on CNBC.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For many, Wedbush Securities has become synonymous with Dan Ives: the charismatic, media-savvy tech analyst known for his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[15345,319,420,7829,12604,532,48683,11170,523,29646,48682,320,7828,58,572,797,48684,9397],"class_list":["post-92901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-microsoft","tag-ai-infrastructure-spending","tag-apple","tag-azure","tag-azure-ai","tag-board","tag-company","tag-coral-pink-baseball-cap","tag-dan-ives","tag-enterprise-ai","tag-ive","tag-ives","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-ai","tag-nvidia","tag-people","tag-service","tag-tech-mega-bull","tag-wedbush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}