{"name":"Pilot Wave","short_name":"Pilot Wave","theme_color":"#ffffff","start_url":"/","display":"standalone","background_color":"#fff","description":"<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"><strong>Pilot Wave</strong> is a podcast at the intersection of artificial intelligence and private markets, exploring how production-grade AI is transforming industrial businesses from the inside out.</p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"></p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Pilot Wave Holdings is a private equity firm purpose-built for AI rollups. The firm leads majority buyouts of manufacturing, infrastructure, and essential services businesses and transforms them with production-grade AI. The strategy has delivered market-leading realized returns and venture-backed AI spinouts incubated directly from portfolio operations.</p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Founded by Afsheen Afshar, MD, PhD (Stanford), former Chief AI Officer at Cerberus Capital Management and Chief Data Science Officer at JPMorgan, Pilot Wave brings institutional-grade AI expertise to Main Street businesses.</p>","icons":[{"src":"https://deow9bq0xqvbj.cloudfront.net/image-logo/22325835/PilotWave_podcast_logo_2048x2048_300x300.png","sizes":"300x300","type":"image/png"}]}