.@Blackstone President Jon Gray says that just like Sears and other retailers went out of business in the dot-com era, but companies like Costco 25x'd, who wins in today's software landscape will be determined by who best adapts to the AI age: "If you go back 25 years, just as the bubble's bursting, as Amazon is starting to become a marketplace for everything, you could have said 'Retail will be an apocalypse.'" "And by the way, Sears, Kmart, Toys 'r' Us, did not make it. On the other hand,…