• Kairos@lemmy.today
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    20 hours ago

    The 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.

    • Caveman@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      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.