The AI Adoption Divide: Why Some Portfolio Companies Unlock Value While Others Fail to Scale

Reviewing two different studies on AI adoption, one claiming successful wins and another, failing to hit objectives or replace human capital.

We see both ends of the table across the portfolio of 20+ mid-market and PE portfolio companies heavily equipped with AI over the last year or two.

The team is also heavy at work to integrate systems, crunch data, analyze processes and augment human robot assistants (which is where 20% of my own time has been going over the last year as well, my Hive network on Claude SDK with 12 full-time robo agents).

Here’s this week’s read for operating partners and private equity professionals.

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95% of PE Funds Report AI Initiatives Meeting Business Case Targets

Mario Peshev


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Mario Peshev is a 5x CEO and operator, founder of DevriX and Growth Shuttle, global value creation advisor, angel investor, and author of “MBA Disrupted.”

His original background in engineering rode the wave of IT entrepreneurship in the last 25 years, from product and service entrepreneurship through acquiring and selling businesses, to investing in global startups like beehiiv, doola, the Stacked Marketer, Alcatraz, SeedBlink.

Peshev spent over 10,000 hours in consulting and training contracts for mid-market and enterprise organizations like VMware, SAP, Software AG, CERN, Saudi Aramco since 2006. His books and guides are referenced in over 50 universities in North America, Europe, and Asia.


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