Puri: AI will outperform financial analysts, forcing them into field data gathering
Shaan Puri · I put 80% of my money in the S&P after a billionaire investor told me not to · May 11, 2026 · at 46:28
Shaan Puri discusses Citrini Research and the future role of knowledge workers as AI automates financial analysis.
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“It's not guys sitting at spreadsheets, because guess what? The AI is much better at sitting there looking at a spreadsheet, reading every earnings report, listening to every earnings call on earth simultaneously, and coming up with the right decision. It's gonna far outperform an analyst. So what does an analyst need to do now? You better be in the field getting better information, higher quality first party data to give back to the AI so it can make a better trading decision. That's what an analyst is gonna be.”
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