The Neuron newsletter served up this TechCrunch article about Read the article https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/01/early-ai-investor-elad-gil-finds-his-next-big-bet-ai-powered-rollups/.
Here’s a quote from the article:
“The idea is to identify opportunities to buy mature, people-intensive outfits like law firms and other professional services firms, help them scale through AI, then use the improved margins to acquire other such enterprises and repeat the process.”
Hmm, what do you think “scale through AI” will mean to those “people-intensive outfits like law firms?” So long jobs.
The whole rollup idea leaves such a bad taste in my mouth. I worked for a technology rollup back in the early 2000s. “divine, Inc.” Ha! There’s a wikipedia page for it. I will confidently state divine was a fun place to work. My take on its downfall was “a business comprised of failing businesses no surprise results in a failed business.”
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