Three $3B B2B Deals Reveal AI's True Currency: Proprietary Data
In a month, Salesforce, Autodesk, and Schneider Electric each paid roughly $3 billion for Fin (Intercom), MaintainX, and Cognite. The common thread isn’t revenue—it's the firms’ domain‑specific data that powers AI products. For builders, owning defensible data is now the premium acquisition asset.