Private equity – it’s all about the personalities
When I first joined AVCJ, I was told by my publisher Dan Schwartz that private equity is a people’s business. The full significance of these words didn’t hit home until sometime later, during the dotcom boom, when I saw how potent a mix of savvy investors and visionary entrepreneurs could be in building great companies.
To those on the outside, it often seemed that these young technocrats were creating multi-billion entities with nothing more than a great idea and a smart PowerPoint presentation. Few really understood...
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