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Engineering Alpha Internally: Burning the Ships and the '30-Hour Analyst' Dividend
How many private equity firms tell their portfolio companies to "innovate with AI" while their own deal teams are still drowning in manual Excel sheets and copy-pasting CRM data? In Episode 14 of Engineering Alpha in Private Equity, Jarrad Berman, Partner in TZP Group’s Portfolio Growth Group, joins Paul Karner and Dave Mangot to turn the operational excellence playbook on itself.
Jarrad shares the story of how TZP Group — a lower middle market firm with over $2 billion in AUM—completely "burned their ships," ditched an expensive six-figure CRM, and built their own custom CRM in just two…
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