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Sheel Mohnot@pitdesi

Thrive Holdings is a permanent capital vehicle (initial round of $1B) that acquires and holds legacy businesses like accounting & IT services and transforms them with AI/tech. OpenAI now has equity and will train models for tasks with company-specific data.

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