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Token Economics, Data Moats, and the Future of Tech Due Diligence

In Episode 8, Paul Karner and Dave Mangot are joined by Dan Bender, Kirby Montgomery, and Jason Langenauer from the global tech due diligence firm Code & Co. (https://www.codeandco.com/) The team breaks down how the rise of AI has fundamentally changed the diligence process for private equity investors.

The conversation shifts away from the hype of AI and dives straight into the P&L consequences of "token economics". The Code & Co. team explains why blindly throwing AI at a problem will wreck a software company's gross margins, why proprietary data is the only genuine moat left in the age of…

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