Dipanjan Deb
Dipanjan Deb is the co-founder and CEO of Francisco Partners, a technology-focused private equity firm he established in 1999. Prior to founding the firm, he was a principal at Texas Pacific Group, director of semiconductor banking at Robertson, Stephens & Company, and a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. He holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS in electrical engineering and computer sciences from UC Berkeley, and currently serves on the boards of Boomi, GoodRx, and New Relic.
“Francisco Partners — which just raised $21 billion and explicitly sees 'opportunities in software' — pushes back directly. Co-founder Dipanjan Deb stated flatly: 'AI will not kill the software industry.'”
“Co-founder Dipanjan Deb stated flatly: 'AI will not kill the software industry.' The firm's massive fundraise and software focus is a strong revealed-preference counterargument to the AI-disrupts-SaaS narrative.”
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