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Bhargava: AI will transform low-margin services industries into software-like margins
“Our thesis somewhat is, well, these unsexy services industries that were breakeven or 15 to 20% EBITDA margins, net income, obviously much lower. They can look like software from a margin profile, because once you take out the repetitive tasks and you take out…”
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2035
Bhargava predicts multiple $100B AI-native compounders in public markets by 2035
“And so we think there'll be plenty of these hundred billion dollar AI native compounders in the public markets 10 years from now,”
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Bhargava: AI labor displacement will hit foreign outsourcing hubs hardest
“What we're seeing a lot of is you add AI technology to American companies. They're now much more efficient. They don't need to outsource a lot of these more repetitive tasks. So I think the area that will be hit the hardest is probably abroad in places like In…”
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Bhargava: Some GC AI roll-ups will reach $100M EBITDA under two years
“Some of the companies in the rollup will hit a hundred million of EBITDA and they're like less than two years old.”
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Bhargava: AI roll-up skepticism will vanish in a few years, like crypto
“I think we're kind of there in the AI roll-up right now, where You know, ourselves and ELOD and Thrive and a few others, AVC have embraced it, but I think most of the market is still pretty skeptical, you know, similar to kind of the crypto evolution and where…”
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Bhargava: Pure software will beat roll-ups in verticals over 80% automatable
“We do think that software services will win out in areas that are, you know, more than 80% automatable Or it's easy to sell into your client base.”