Ep.65: Future-Proof or Fall Behind: Adapting to the era of AI and new Private Markets Participants - Alex Robinson - Co-Founder & CEO - Juniper Square

Alex is the CEO and Co-founder of Juniper Square, the leading provider of modern investment partnership solutions to the private funds industry. Juniper Square helps more than 2,000 GPs manage more than $1T of LP capital across 35,000 private equity partnerships. 

Alex previously served as a founding partner of New Energy Risk (acquired by XL Capital), and started his career at Microsoft, where he held a variety of product leadership roles. 

Alex holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and a BA from the University of Washington. 

Links:

Alex on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexrob22/

Juniper Square - https://www.junipersquare.com/

Brandon on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bsedloff/

Topics:

(00:00:00) - Intro

(00:01:52) - Alex's Personal Journey and Health Transformation

(00:08:25) - Market Trends

(00:11:52) - The Rise of Retail Investors

(00:14:33) - AI and Its Impact on Private Markets

(00:20:19) - Regulation in Private Markets

(00:23:18) - Challenges and Solutions for GPs

(00:53:44) - Leveraging AI for Business Transformation

(00:54:46) - The Challenge of Re-engineering Business Processes

(00:55:43) - The Role of AI Tools in Business

(00:57:15) - Juniper Square's Unique Position in AI

(00:58:11) - The Evolution of Foundational AI Models

(01:03:54) - Future Predictions and AI Integration

(01:07:20) - Juniper Square's Journey and Vision

(01:08:28) - AI Conversation of Alex's last appearance on the Podcast juxtaposed to this one