The Bridge Ep. 8 | Behind the IPO Headlines: How AI is Restructuring Private Markets

In this episode of The Bridge, Sonali Basak, Chief Investment Strategist at iCapital, sits down with Jack Weingart, Chief Financial Officer of TPG, to discuss why the 2026 IPO surge is an anomaly rather than a trend, how the most significant value creation is increasingly happening in private markets before companies ever go public, and why today's IPO moment is masking a deeper structural shift that Weingart says is unlike anything the market has seen in decades.

The conversation also covers how private credit is mirroring private equity's structural evolution, why AI is emerging as the primary driver of operational value creation over financial engineering, and what the speed of AI adoption will reveal about which companies are truly built for this cycle and which aren't. Weingart shares his conviction that over the next ten years, accelerating innovation will push more companies toward private markets, not away from them.