Navigating Wealth

How Growth Equity Firms Pick Software Winners in an AI Market — Emila Damjanovic and Evan Skorpen

July 1, 2026·52 min
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Today we welcome Emila Damjanovic and Evan Skorpen, Partners at Lead Edge Capital, a growth equity firm with 100+ company partnerships and 60+ exits. The conversation covers how growth equity works, why software cash margins have tripled while valuations compressed, and how to identify which software businesses are actually durable when AI is reshaping the category. This episode gives investors a cleaner way to evaluate software positions right now.🔔 Please Subscribe and Hit the Bell: https://www.youtube.com/@NavigatingWealthPodcast?sub_confirmation=1Discover More From Long Angle👉 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NavigatingWealthPodcast👉 Beyond Wealth Newsletter: https://langle.co/bwnews👉 Research & Studies: https://www.longangle.com/research━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Resources & Links👥 Become a Member: longangle.com/navigatingwealth📤 Get Episode Release Notifications: https://www.longangle.com/navigating-wealth-podcast━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Socials💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/long-angle🅧 Twitter/X: https://x.com/LongAngleHNW📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/longanglehnw/📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/longanglehnwLong Angle is a private, vetted global community of accomplished entrepreneurs, executives and professionals who have reached meaningful financial milestones and want to navigate wealth with peers who understand their challenges, opportunities, responsibilities and ambitions.Hosted by the founders of the Long Angle community, Navigating Wealth explores how experienced investors, founders and operators approach the real questions wealth creates, from private markets and capital allocation to business exits and life design.

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