The Disruptor
Contrarian and drawn to the edge; challenges the settled answer.
David Roux is The Disruptor because his investment logic is built on structural provocation. As Silver Lake co-founder and now Baypine executive chairman, he pioneered the notion that private equity could function as a technology transformation engine rather than a purely financial one.
“We could build an investment firm that not only could write a check, but could be your technology partner in helping you architect a business model future that would allow you to grow your company faster, perform better, produce more profits.”
explaining Baypine's founding thesisundated
“The other ninety percent of the economy is being digitized. Huge opportunity. All of these analog companies, industrial firms, consumer firms, healthcare firms, services companies, they all need to adopt more technology, but none of them know how.”
identifying digital transformation opportunityundated
“We do a normal financial underwrite, and what's different is we also do a separate digital underwriting where we create a technology roadmap that integrates with their business model and extends it to create performance improvements.”
describing Baypine's investment processundated
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