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Your conference recap post is a selfie with a lanyard.
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Apparently, the quickest way to become an AI business is to replace “automation” in last year’s board deck.
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If bankers earned a fee every time they put “proprietary” in a CIM, they could stop charging for the deal.
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The Best Private Equity Books of All Time: A Definitive Reading List
Twenty-five books, from Barbarians at the Gate to the critics the industry would rather you skipped. What to read, and what to leave on the shelf.
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What a Transaction Efficiency Benchmark Reveals About Deal Automation
Ask a transaction team what "efficient" looks like, and the answer usually comes back the same way: fewer steps, less manual work, more automation. That's the wrong place to stop. Removing administrative work matters mainly because of what it frees a professional to do instead. It
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Reality Labs lost $4.6 billion last quarter. The glasses cost $1,300.
Meta VR Glasses weigh 100 grams, cost $1,299.99 and ship in spring 2027. The display is the best Meta has built. The field of view, the empty box and the $8.6bn first-half loss are the rest of the story.
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OpenAI stopped selling its $200 ChatGPT plan. That tells you what it costs.
New sign-ups to ChatGPT Pro $200 are paused. Existing users keep it, everyone else gets the $100 tier. A company only rations a product when the price was wrong.
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Blackstone tried to securitise its ageing fund stakes. The market passed.
Investors were offered 12% to hold the junior debt on 700 ageing fund stakes and still said no. The liquidity providers have discovered they need liquidity.
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PE has a talent strategy in a slide deck somewhere.
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Conference season reveals the best version of every PE firm.
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The Best Private Equity Conferences for Operating Partners (2026 to 2027): Ranked by Who Is Actually in the Room
Every conference list is a calendar. This one tells you which rooms are full of operators, which are full of the people selling to them, and which three are worth the flight.