Product & Innovation
How are investors using AI to assess private companies?
Answered independently in 2 episodes, by 2 different people. Every line below is verbatim from the transcript, timestamped to the moment it was said.
The short answer
What the archive says
01Use AI for utility, not just as an investment thesis. Aggregating a company's own curated private data can surface the small sliver of activities actually building value out of the hundred things a leader is doing. source →
02Loud Capital uses AI integrations to aggregate a company's curated private data into an assessment leadership often can't see themselves, then identifies the small number of levers that actually build value. source →
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What 2 people actually said
That happens in companies. That understanding, which takes a little bit of time to spend time with that person, not just the idea and the vision and the existing company, it's really the ability to be molded. As investors, we also want to be more plastic as well.
Some of that is the accountability that we have for businesses where we do an assessment and we say, hey, this is what your company is right now based on all the data within that company, which is curated private data of that company, which many times a leadership team can't really even see. But to aggregate it in a way where you can understand it and then start making decisions on how you can build the most value.
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