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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.