Beyond Customers: Why Elite Companies Want "Hostages"
Forget customer satisfaction – top VCs now prioritize companies with extreme customer lock-in. Plus, AI rewrites product management, mid-sized VCs vanish, and physical AI surges from CES 2026.
Deal trends, operational insights, market conditions, exit strategies.
Forget customer satisfaction – top VCs now prioritize companies with extreme customer lock-in. Plus, AI rewrites product management, mid-sized VCs vanish, and physical AI surges from CES 2026.
The M&A playbook is being rewritten. Discover how private equity is adapting to high interest rates and valuation gaps with IP licensing, AI-driven strategies, and a relentless focus on talent. Liquidity is found in new places.
The AI conversation is shifting from hype to utility. Discover how smart money and savvy operators are driving measurable ROI and what it takes to win in this new era.
Forget financial engineering. Top PE firms are quietly revolutionizing value creation with data-driven operations, transforming "bad businesses" into high-margin ventures. Discover how.
The AI gold rush is shifting. Discover how smart money is moving beyond foundational models to the infrastructure primitives needed for AI to impact factories, science, and finance.
Easy money is over. Discover how top PE firms are shifting from financial engineering to hands-on operational excellence for value creation in a challenging market.
AI's rapid ascent meets geopolitical friction, regulatory threats, and a stubborn exit backlog. Discover how smart money de-risks portfolios and finds value in overlooked sectors.
The market is buzzing with AI, but the conversation is shifting from "what if" to "how now." Discover how top operators are architecting businesses around AI, revealing that human-centric bottlenecks, not AI’s capabilities, are the true limiting factors. Plus, navigate the new regulatory frontier an
Discover how top investors and operators are finding alpha in today's bifurcated market, focusing on rigorous processes, concentrated bets, and human connection. Learn where the smart money is moving.
AI is everywhere, forcing private markets to recalibrate. Discover why infrastructure trumps software, venture capital's shrinking middle, fixed income's resurgence, and how geopolitics rewrites the investment playbook.
The era of cheap capital is over. Discover how AI, specialized VC, and operational excellence are forging a new, savvier financial landscape. Get the intel you need to adapt.
While AI dominates headlines, smart growth equity investors are quietly "spearfishing" for undervalued platforms. Discover why this market dislocation is a once-in-3-year opportunity.