2. Pietro Casella - former AI lead at EQT, 3rd largest Private Equity: Do LLMs have personalities?

In this episode I sit down Pietro Casella, who at the time of the recording, headed AI Acceleration at EQT Group, the third largest Private Equity on the planet with hundreds of portfolio companies.

Previously Pietro has been working at companies such as Accenture, KPMG and Spotify. Now, he is the Chief AI Architect at MGX, driving portfolio value creation through AI at MGX’s Operating Partners team.

In this conversation, Pietro shares how a day as the head of AI at EQT can look like, his thoughts on today’s developments in AI and how he thinks organizations will look like vs how they should look in the future.

00:00 Intro

1:14 What happened when you first tested out Chat:GPT?

3:30 Understanding and studying software

11:06 A typical day as the Head of AI at EQT

15:30 How do you make people understand opportunities with AI ?

23:17 How has the buzz around AI impacted your work?

25:13 Is it true that 90% of AI projects fail?

26:19 What does EQT Motherbrain do?

30:06 How do you measure success?

43:07 Who should own AI in organisations?

50:32 What is a good investment from an AI angle?

54:58 Which sectors has emerged as interesting?

57:49 Who are today’s sellers of buckets and shovels ?

1:06:42 Open source vs. Closed source

1:14:05 Has the performance gap closed between the open & closed source models

1:19:10 Is all data relevant and valuable?

1:28:00 What are you most excited about for the future?

Follow Pietro: Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pietrocasella/