lyr3: AI, PE and Change
AI Impact from the Ops seat
Cristina Cordova, the Linear COO, runs a business with 25,000 paying customers on a team of 140. People assume it's 400. She is deliberate about why it isn't. "The way a lot of other companies try to accomplish that goal is by just bringing on more bodies," she said. "We've taken the tactic of saying, is this really a role that is…
Read→Every CIM Says AI Now
On a recent Private Equity Funcast, ParkerGale partners Devin Mathews and Jim Milbery spent an episode on a problem every middle-market buyer now shares. Every CIM that crosses the desk claims AI.
$33 in incremental AI Spend
That's what it costs to run a full AI B2B marketing engine for a client right now. Content for LinkedIn. Email. Blog. SEO. Targeting and Pipeline prep for the sales team.
AI is finally giving us the intranet we were promised
In November 1998, two equity analysts at Merrill Lynch described the future of work in a single sentence. Christopher Shilakes and Julie Tylman were not futurists or vendors with something to sell.
AI Is Rewriting the PE Playbook
For years, when private equity talked about technology, it talked about cost. Squeeze the back office. Consolidate the stack. Expand the margin. Listen to how PE leaders talk about AI now and you hear something different. Something more existential.
On-Demand Apps from LI
Traditional software is built for thousands of people. That means it fits no one perfectly. AI enables software with an audience as small as one.
Rise of the AI Operating Partner
Here is a recent set of Posts on my LinkedIn.
Technical Journey
Over my career I've built a strong foundation in computer science, systems design, and the architecture of complex business platforms.
The Lot Line
Try out thelotline.com. We are looking at how to build a site to make real estate browsing a leaned back on the couch fun experience with a simple game mechanic.
What is the ICP tool in MeetBri?
This is the story of how a test became a product. While I was building the original AI interviewer, I needed some long form interviews to use as models, they had to be real, generally business oriented and available at volume.
Let’s figure out what AI
actually looks like for you
No pitch deck. A conversation about your portfolio, your thesis, and whether I can move the numbers.
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