What Silicon Valley Doesn't Get About Private Equity with Brent Beshore
b'Brent Beshore (@BrentBeshore), founder and CEO of Adventur.es, joins Erik on this episode.
They discuss:
- What makes Adventur.es \\u201cthe inverse of traditional private equity,\\u201d including why they don\\u2019t add debt to a company\\u2019s balance sheet when they purchase a company and intend to keep the existing leadership around.
- What Silicon Valley doesn\\u2019t get about private equity, how it\\u2019s different from venture, and how VC and PE might interact in the future.
- Some of the industries that Brent thinks are overlooked and the breakdown of some of their past investments.
- The book he wrote, The Messy Marketplace, and the lessons it holds for business owners.
- The state of the macro environment and how they think about it at Adventur.es.
- How they evaluate potential investments and business partners, and his strategies for evaluating people in general.
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