By: SomethingSomethingComplete
Exceptionally difficult to buy something from an anonymous source called “Nanea, private equity insider”, who has lots of anecdotal evidence to share but sells it as . Why would anyone use this as...
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1st sentence should end with “sells it as serious, unbiased research”.
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“But not a week can pass without the blog reverting to the anecdotes or opinions of people who we can’t even vet for reliability.” – SomethingSomethingComplete Skip here… Such as yourself? I have yet...
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I would like to respond to SomethingSomethingComplete. The purpose of this post was to try to offer some insight into the sociology of private equity deal making. I don’t think I made any factual...
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Indeed, my experience is that international border crossing in a private jet is an amazingly genteel affair. The plane lands, a U.S. Customs agent trots out to meet it at a designated spot, and the...
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Let’s go in reverse. First, I didn’t suggest that you are a low-level PE participant. My paragraph on that meant to illustrate a point- that without actual data, hard evidence, and/or total openness...
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PS: Last thing, I promise. I think I may be being unreasonable here. After all, technically speaking it is a blog. It is (or used to be) a place for the owner to share interesting things as they see...
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I think we are talking past one another. My posting was intended as social commentary–insight into cultural norms of the business as I perceive them. This type of commentary is inherently subjective...
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You seem to be a reasonable guy, which is why I am continuing to engage this. There seems to be an implication in what you write that I was harshly criticizing the PE industry, playing to the NC crowd...
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You’re right. It is your commentary, you obviously have the right to offer it here, and you didn’t claim that it was conclusive evidence or that we can generalize from it. And it was interesting,...
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