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AI is forcing software companies to question the economics of software itself
Agents can automate work previously performed inside applications, putting pressure on user-based pricing and established SaaS product boundaries.
Banking is entering an era of faster markets and more programmable money
AI, tokenization and stablecoins are beginning to change trading, payments and financial infrastructure while regulation remains uneven.
Strategic challenges
Who owns the customer when the vehicle becomes a software platform?
The challenge is moving from one-time vehicle economics toward digital services without weakening affordability or product reliability.
How should producers invest when security risk rises but demand growth weakens?
The challenge is balancing near-term scarcity economics with long-lived assets exposed to changing demand, technology and policy.
POV
Private markets cannot treat liquidity as somebody else's problem forever
As hold periods extend, the ability to manufacture credible exits becomes as important as the ability to originate deals.
The platform that owns the transaction may no longer own the customer journey
AI agents could separate discovery from execution, challenging one of the basic assumptions behind marketplace power.
Strategic impact
Consumer pressure is forcing harder choices across brands, formats and price points
More granular demand patterns are exposing where portfolios genuinely earn preference and where scale merely protects legacy complexity.
Liquidity innovation is becoming part of private-capital portfolio strategy
Secondaries, continuation vehicles and alternative structures are increasingly used to manage duration and return capital without forced exits.
What we observe
CPG companies often defend every brand while consumer demand becomes more selective
Portfolio breadth can dilute investment when shoppers concentrate spending around clearer value and fewer meaningful differences.
Biopharma companies often modernize discovery while leaving development economics unchanged
Faster target identification has limited value if trials, evidence generation and commercialization remain equally slow and expensive.