BusinessFunding / M&AApplications · Business, Funding & Industry · Agents & Tool Use1 source · Oct 19, 2026

Why Buying Companies Beats Selling Them AI — Prathik Naidu, Long Lake

Deploying AI into real businesses is hard: org charts are messy, trust takes decades, and service firms don't scale like software.

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Key points

  • Prathik Naidu, founding partner at Long Lake, explains their strategy: acquire established service businesses, then transform them with AI from the inside.
  • He covers how they choose companies and what changes once they own them, drawing on 40 businesses across residential services, architecture, HR and more.
  • 02:15 Why deploying AI into businesses is hard
  • 06:27 Why trust and brand win

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  • [1]Why Buying Companies Beats Selling Them AI — Prathik Naidu, Long Lake
    AI Engineer (YouTube) · Oct 19, 09:00 AM
    Deploying AI into real businesses is hard: org charts are messy, trust takes decades, and service firms don't scale like software.
    Prathik Naidu, founding partner at Long Lake, explains their strategy: acquire established service businesses, then transform them with AI from the inside.

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