If I were designing a PE firm for 2030, I’d kill the Monday partner meeting.

Not restructure it. Not shorten it. Kill it.

Here’s why.

Most Monday meetings are a relic. Created in a world where we needed a room and a whiteboard to coordinate a firm. Now, they’re an expensive group therapy session disguised as productivity.

You’ve seen it:

– A few voices dominate. Everyone else scrolls email.
– Pipeline is 40% recycled deals we passed on six months ago.
– Deal updates are read aloud, from the memo everyone already read.
– “Any other business?” is code for “I want to hear myself speak.”

Meanwhile, the things that actually drive returns (alignment, execution, data) are happening elsewhere, often without the GPs in the room.

If we want to build firms for the next decade, not the last, we need to act like it:

Asynchronous, written-first communication.

Let’s not pretend shouting over each other in a boardroom is smarter than clear, concise written memos and structured feedback loops. Memo-first firms like Stripe and Amazon aren’t doing that for fun—it’s because it works.

Real-time data visibility.

Why wait till Monday to talk about KPIs when you can have a live dashboard showing CAC, LTV, or store conversion across all portcos, every day? If a number is trending down, you should already be fixing it—not waiting for a meeting.

Cross-functional task forces.

Instead of Partners talking about Ops, have Ops in the room. Structured teams—Deal, Ops, Digital—aligned on growth. Not siloed. Not competitive. Focused.

More doing, less talking.

The average PE firm spends 15–20 hours a week across partners in Monday meetings. That’s 1,000 hours a year. What if we gave half that back to portfolio strategy, founder relationships, and recruiting the next $100M leader?

The firms that win in 2030 won’t be the ones who talk better on Mondays.

They’ll be the ones who build better the rest of the week.