The Phil Bak Podcast Khe Hy - The Big AI Opportunity for Asset Managers
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Mar 2, 2026 
Khe Hy, former asset management executive turned solo entrepreneur and AI educator. He explores building finance platforms, how AI reshapes roles and which finance jobs stay resilient. He breaks down agents, copilot workflows, deep prompting, and entrepreneurial chances AI creates for solo founders.
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Go Deep And Add AI Fluency
- Move up the value chain by developing deep domain expertise and combine it with AI fluency to become irreplaceable.
- Khe says rote office work is toast but subtle expert judgement (e.g., M&A clauses) remains valuable and should be cultivated.
Rainmaking Remains AI Proof
- Roles that require real human presence and relationship power—rainmakers, dealmakers, public figures—are much harder to automate.
- Khe cites rainmakers like top bankers who wield influence and can't be replaced by models alone.
AI Favors Native Platform Rewrites
- AI lowers product and tooling barriers, enabling native-AI entrants to outcompete incumbents that bolt AI onto legacy systems.
- Khe compares Robinhood's app-first UX and imagines a native-AI Vanguard that starts with AI as the platform.