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Data & AI Strategy
A PE operating partner funded a $1.2M AI platform. The model was built. The vendor delivered. Twelve months la…

Apr 2026
Gartner says 85% of AI projects fail. The reason is never the model. It is always the data. Here are the three…

Data & AI Strategy
A single AI product launch erased $285 billion from software market caps. The IGV ETF is down 30%. But Thoma B…

Data & AI Strategy
I have now done this three times. Each time, the specifics were different but the pattern was the same. Here i…

Data Engineering
The Databricks docs show you how to enable Unity Catalog. They do not show you what breaks when you roll it ou…

Data & AI Strategy
Most PE firms rigorously assess financials and markets but barely scratch the surface on data. The result: pos…
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