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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…”
Mark Bhargava Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 21:00 Inside General Catalyst’s $1.5B AI Roll-Up Machine · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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,”
Mark Bhargava Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 27:25 Inside General Catalyst’s $1.5B AI Roll-Up Machine · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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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…”
Mark Bhargava Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 34:18 Inside General Catalyst’s $1.5B AI Roll-Up Machine · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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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.”
Mark Bhargava Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 49:09 Inside General Catalyst’s $1.5B AI Roll-Up Machine · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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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…”
Mark Bhargava Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 50:16 Inside General Catalyst’s $1.5B AI Roll-Up Machine · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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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.”
Mark Bhargava Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 41:49 Inside General Catalyst’s $1.5B AI Roll-Up Machine · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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