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When major tech firms announce massive workforce reductions while simultaneously pouring billions into AI infrastructure, PE board members and Operating Partners are left asking: Are these layoffs driven by true AI...
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Engineering Alpha in Private Equity
Hosted by Paul Karner and Dave Mangot · business · EN-US
About this Podcast:
Engineering Alpha in Private Equity is a podcast about how software engineering and data science excellence create operational alpha. Hosted by Dave Mangot, the author of _DevOps Patterns for Private Equity_, who has worked with operating teams at Thoma Bravo, Hg Capital, and other top-tier PE firms.Co-hosted by Paul Karner, PhD, an economist with two decades inside PE-backed companies. Each episode explores the intersection of technology decisions and investment outcomes.
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What is Engineering Alpha in Private Equity about?
Engineering Alpha in Private Equity is a podcast about how software engineering and data science excellence create operational alpha. Hosted by Dave Mangot, the author of _DevOps Patterns for Private Equity_, who has worked with operating teams at Thoma Bravo, Hg Capital, and other top-tier PE firms. Co-hosted by Paul Karner, PhD, an economist with two decades inside PE-backed companies.
Who hosts Engineering Alpha in Private Equity?
Engineering Alpha in Private Equity is hosted by Paul Karner and Dave Mangot. The show has published 21 episodes to date.
What has Engineering Alpha in Private Equity covered recently?
Recent episodes include "AI-Washing Layoffs, Budget Reallocation, and the Valuation Multiple Trap" (29 October 2026, 17 minutes), "The State of Portfolio Ops 2026: AI Ops Titles, Forward Deployed Engineers, and the EBITDA Capture Gap" (21 October 2026, 40 minutes), and "Agentic Software Factories: Specialist Agents, Cutting Cloud OPEX, and Protecting Production" (15 October 2026, 19 minutes).
How often does Engineering Alpha in Private Equity publish?
Engineering Alpha in Private Equity publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 26 minutes across 21 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Engineering Alpha in Private Equity?
Booking probability for Engineering Alpha in Private Equity is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Engineering Alpha in Private Equity requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Engineering Alpha in Private Equity's contact route on record: verified email.
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The strongest fits for Engineering Alpha in Private Equity are Investing & Wealth Management. Engineering Alpha in Private Equity has a business audience.
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Paul Karner and Dave Mangot hosts Engineering Alpha in Private Equity, a business podcast with 21 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Oct 21, 202640 minS1How are elite Private Equity firms restructuring their internal Value Creation and Portfolio Operations teams to capture AI returns? In Episode 20 Paul and Dave welcome Dante Sacco, Head of Network at OneGuide, to...
Episode #19
Agentic Software Factories: Specialist Agents, Cutting Cloud OPEX, and Protecting Production
Oct 15, 202619 minS1When generative AI accelerates code creation by 5x or 10x, writing code ceases to be the organizational bottleneck. Every other stage of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) gets severely strained. In Episode 19...
Oct 6, 202627 minS1When PE backed companies attempt to drive AI R&D performance, they often set local targets—like story point velocity or code commit volume that inadvertently trigger perverse incentives and operational chaos. In Episode...
Episode #17
The New Calculus of Buy vs. Build: Claude Code, Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting, and Slashing COGS
Sep 30, 202621 minS1With generative AI tools making code generation faster and cheaper than ever, Private Equity deal teams and portfolio company executives are re-examining off-the-shelf SaaS software. Why pay six-figure SaaS...
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Sep 14, 202611 minS1When Private Equity boards attempt to capture AI returns, a common line item targeted is engineering headcount. In Episode 16, Paul and Dave analyze a recent LeadDev report detailing Meta’s attempt to shrink engineering...
Sep 9, 202622 minS1When Private Equity boards want to optimize engineering costs, they often fall into a dangerous trap: using software to measure "developer productivity" using lines of code, velocity points, or pull request wait times...
Aug 17, 202647 minS1In Episode 13, Paul Karner and Dave Mangot sit down with tech veteran Michael Frendo, the current CTO of New Relic (a Francisco Partners and TPG company) and former executive at Proofpoint (a Thoma Bravo company)...
Aug 5, 202645 minS1Paul and Dave sit down with tech veteran and quality pioneer Elisabeth Hendrickson (former VP of R&D for Data Products at Pivotal). Together, they shatter one of the most common metrics used in private equity...
Jul 28, 202624 minS1In Episode 11 of Engineering Alpha in Private Equity, Paul Karner and Dave Mangot react to a recent Anthropic ad showcasing Claude Code automatically fixing a production bug at 3 a.m. While the ad promises a "find it...
Jul 9, 202629 minS1In Episode 10 of Engineering Alpha in Private Equity, Paul Karner and Dave Mangot dive into the hard data from the 2026 CircleCI State of Software Delivery Report, which analyzed over 28 million CI workflows. While the...
Jun 29, 202613 minS1In Episode 9 Paul Karner and Dave Mangot tackle a recent Fortune interview (https://fortune.com/2026/06/21/nobel-laureate-daron-acemoglu-ai-productivity-capitalism-democracy/) with Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron...
Jun 23, 202649 minS1In Episode 8, Paul Karner and Dave Mangot are joined by Dan Bender, Kirby Montgomery, and Jason Langanau from the global tech due diligence firm Code & Co. (https://www.codeandco.com/) The team breaks down how the rise...
Jun 18, 202614 minS1In Episode 7, Paul Karner and Dave Mangot unpack a core thesis of the show: why "agentic proficiency" is the modern equivalent of the SaaS multiple. While the ultimate goal of any portfolio company remains the same —...
Jun 11, 202616 minS1If a software company still uses "maintenance windows" to release updates, it is a glaring operational warning sign. In this explainer episode, Dave and Paul break down why maintenance windows indicate a broken software...
Jun 4, 202650 minS1In our first dedicated research episode, Dave and Paul are joined by Nathen Harvey, who leads the DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) program at Google Cloud. For over a decade, DORA has proven that elite software...
May 28, 202624 minS1How do you actually prove that a massive technology transformation is working? In Episode 4, we flip the script and dive into Paul Karner’s world of data science and causal inference. Using a real-world example of a...
Episode #3
Uber COO questions tokenmaxxing
May 26, 20266 minS1In this hot-take episode, Paul Karner and Dave Mangot analyze a massive red flag in the current tech landscape: Uber's COO recently admitted it's getting harder to justify the money spent on AI "token maxing," while the...
May 14, 202618 minS1In this news review episode, we break down the recent wave of partnerships between major cloud vendors and private equity firms, starting with the Thoma Bravo and Google Cloud announcement. These partnerships highlight...
May 5, 202628 minS1Welcome to the first official episode of the Engineering Alpha and Private Equity podcast! Hosts Paul Karner (economist and data scientist) and Dave Mangot (DevOps expert) break down what "Engineering Alpha" actually...
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