Fractional AI markets its services to private equity underwriters (PEU). It is being bought out by a new Anthropic/PEU joint venture backed by numerous players (seen on the right side of the image below). OpenAI has its own AI-PEU venture.
For workers in most PEU affiliates this will be at least the second time their sponsors have made major changes in operations. The first required lopping off headcount and other operating expenses in order to pay new annual management fees, much higher interest expense, fund special dividends/distributions, enrich executives and achieve the sponsor's hurdle rate.
PEUs had affiliates buy from one another even if it wasn't the cheapest or the best quality. Now that they've joined with TechGods in their circular financial masturbation, employees can make billionaires into trillionaires.
TechGods already have a strong "workplace crapification" strategy underway, so they come to the table ably equipped to assist their new joint venture sponsors.
Don't look for any help or support from elected officials. Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod/CryptoBro brethren. Increasingly, more are one and most care not about the little people.
