{"id":493341,"date":"2026-02-20T22:37:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/493341\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T22:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:37:33","slug":"the-giant-ai-problem-facing-private-equity-barons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/493341\/","title":{"rendered":"The giant AI problem facing private equity barons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the 2010s there were two reliable ways to make a fortune. The first involved selling enterprise software, the countless computer applications that now dominate office life. Businesses subscribe to these applications, as you might a magazine, as opposed to buying them only once, as you would a book.<\/p>\n<p>This \u201crecurring\u201d revenue explains the interest of private equity funds, the second great gold mine of that era. During the past decade, buy-out funds spent one in every three dollars on technology firms. As software ate the world, private equity drank champagne.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">The Economist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the 2010s there were two reliable ways to make a fortune. The first involved selling enterprise software,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-493341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}