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Hosted by Paul Karner and Dave Mangot · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 13 episodes
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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.
Paul Karner and Dave Mangot hosts Engineering Alpha in Private Equity, a business show with 13 episodes published.
In 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). Michae
Paul 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 boardrooms:
In 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, fi
In 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 t
In 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 Ace
In 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 o
In 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 — sat
If 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
In 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 deli
How 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 priv
In 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
In 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 a
Welcome 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 mea
Welcome to Engineering Alpha in Private Equity, the podcast about how software engineering and data science excellence create operational alpha in private equity. In this trailer, Dave and Paul discuss the founding thesi
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Engineering Alpha in Private Equity is hosted by Paul Karner and Dave Mangot. The show is categorised under business (investing) and has published 13 episodes.
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