Australian GPs look to retain spirit of entrepreneurship - AVCJ Forum
The combination of personalities and skillsets that characterised the first generation of Australian private equity is unlikely to be repeated, but GPs are still looking for ways to capture elements of entrepreneurialism even as the industry becomes more institutionalised.
“When you come into a firm as an employee where the firm has 20 years of history and is onto its seventh fund, that speaks to a very different person to someone who comes in at Fund I or II, maybe not...
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