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minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down6·20 hours agoThe first sentence When you choose a software vendor, do you question how the company is financed? Should that be part of your evaluation? This article seems to be about the ethos of private equity. Legally they’re nearly identical.
minus-squareCaveman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoPrivate equity is commonly referring to “owned by a private equity fund” like Blackrock. It often involves extracting unhealthy amount of short term profit to make the numbers look better then sell the business so they can record a profit.
minus-squareVelypso@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·20 hours agoSure, legally yes. In practice, a lot of the time, not even close.
minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·19 hours agoYes that’s what I said.
The first sentence
This article seems to be about the ethos of private equity. Legally they’re nearly identical.
Private equity is commonly referring to “owned by a private equity fund” like Blackrock. It often involves extracting unhealthy amount of short term profit to make the numbers look better then sell the business so they can record a profit.
Sure, legally yes.
In practice, a lot of the time, not even close.
Yes that’s what I said.