Search Funds: destroying value aka being killed by AI

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by a searcher from Technische Fachhochschule Berlin
in Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates

2yrs ago

Search Funds: destroying value aka being killed by AI

"All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There" - Charlie Munger

After redacted of GPT-4o, OpenAI wiped out ~$340M of market cap of Duolingo inc: a public company, just minutes after launching.

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With the recent AI Developments (Vision, Voice, Text, latency, Context Window, Rate limit, Multimodality, Reasoning, Agents, Tooling), I'm curious how search fund investment firms or small and mid market PE firms are de-risking their investments and if there's a way we could use collective knowledge here to consolidate a list of AI disruption-prone industries to avoid or others to focus on in a searcher's investment thesis?

I look forward to hearing everyone's takes.

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reply by a searcher 2yrs ago
from University of Pennsylvania in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Anything media or SEO related seems to be in a rough spot - that could be digital agencies or a pure media biz

reply by an investor 2yrs ago
from University of Western Australia in Perth WA, Australia

Perhaps flip that question on its head. Which businesses and sectors will be supercharged by AI and can I acquire a business and be an early adopter