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How Investors Are Using AI [Business Breakdowns: Episode 240]
David Plon, founder of Portrait Analytics and former Baupost and Slate Path generalist, sees AI's edge in relieving investors' information bottleneck through idea generation, context building, and ecosystem monitoring—not outsourcing conviction.Filtering customers, suppliers, and competitors can expose demand, pricing, distribution, and share shifts, while mapping and guidance may kill weak ideas early; longer-term payoff depends on documented decisions, bottom-up adoption, and solving agentic research's engineering problem.
GE Aerospace: Full Throttle [Business Breakdowns Episode 235]
GE Aerospace’s pure-play franchise powers three out of four commercial takeoffs daily, with 70,000 engines in service and 70% narrow-body share.LEAP losses at OE can convert into mandated aftermarket economics: 60% gross margins, plausibly 40%+ operating margins, and 8–10% commercial-services growth for at least five years.Yet 40x free cash flow prices optimism, while the open-fan bet is at least a decade away and Boeing could dual-source its next narrow body.