Gaurav Kapadia: belief

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…How does AI affect how you think about investing, companies, sectors? There’s a good chance it spreads everywhere, right? How do you take that into account? I would say Tyler’s been almost my coach in this because he has really encouraged me. I think we’re a very modern organization, and I’m a pretty modern person, but to really embrace the max case of what AI can do . . . I’m pretty optimistic as to what AI can do in an investment organization, but going back to, I think you need a lot of entrepreneurial energy to force it through. SEC-regulated investment firms — there’s just a ton of detritus within it. The thing about AI is you have to push forward and push through it. Now, I think there’s going to be a couple of proximate effects. I would say investing and running an investment management organization are two different things. The proximate effects, I think, on investing — it’s going to allow better, faster, more in-depth analysis much more quickly. So much of our analysts’ time is spent on initial evaluations of companies. I expect that in the next very short run — within the next year — to be able to have a lot of leverage from AI. That actually allows our analysts and myself, and other partners here, to spend most of our energy applying judgment and taste to the corpus of facts. One of the things I always like to say is, if Julian Robertson came to my office and opened up my desktop, he would know exactly what to do. It’s Bloomberg, it’s Excel, et cetera. I think that’s about to change really dramatically with custom tooling, custom analysis, et cetera. That’s on the investing side. I think one of the other things that is also non-intuitive is that a lot goes into running an investment organization. Legal — the compliance burdens are off the charts — operations, tax, et cetera. I think there’s a huge opportunity in making the quality of life and accuracy much better there. I think there’s going to be a twofold impact. But I also think most investment organizations do not have the wherewithal to go through change. But it’s because yours is in founder mode that you think they do, hope they do.…

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