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The latest from G3NR8.
The last two newsletters and a couple of the latest long-reads. Sourced, specific, built from live PE work.
The AI labs are buying their way into PE.
Anthropic is negotiating a JV with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman and Permira. OpenAI is talking to TPG, Bain Capital and Advent. Apollo is already using AI to reprice its own software book. The frontier labs stopped selling to PE and started buying distribution.
Read Issue 05 →The death of financial engineering, and what replaces it.
The capstone issue. Eight weeks of data, conversations and frameworks distilled into four insights that matter. Mega-fund AI moves from Hg, Permira and Silver Lake. The speed gap is now measurable. The window is closing.
Read Issue 04 →Why 95% of AI pilots fail: the missing intent layer.
MIT found 95% of generative AI pilots deliver no measurable business impact. The problem isn't the technology. It's that nobody defined what working actually means. The missing discipline is intent engineering: telling AI what to want, not just what to do.
Read the article →How PE operating partners are deploying AI that actually works.
Why the best operating partners start with discovery, not technology. How AI voice interviews surface ground truth from every level of a portco in under two weeks, and how that feeds directly into deployed intelligence that protects revenue.
Read the article →Don't miss the next issue.
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