David Bessel

Principal at TPG in San Francisco, focused on technology investment opportunities, including Internet, digital media, communications, and software/enterprise technology. He has represented TPG in public discussions on enterprise AI adoption and AI-enabled private-markets workflows, including OpenAI’s Investor Innovation Day.

AI in Financial Services Is Moving From Answers to Work Products

At OpenAI’s Investor Innovation Day, Sarah Friar and other speakers argued that Codex and enterprise ChatGPT are moving AI use in financial services from “asking mode” into execution. The examples stayed close to existing work: querying deal folders, speeding company research in Excel, generating spreadsheets, models, and decks, and distributing employee-built GPTs into daily operations. James Mackey tied the enterprise case to adoption at scale, saying 2,700 employees now have ChatGPT licenses and are using hundreds of internal GPTs as a business “force multiplier.”

OpenAIJun 7, 20265 min read