Perhaps most surprisingly, you’ll hear Megan take great pains to differentiate private equity from venture capital, which is very different — and with very different problems.
Private equity is a pretty useless term at this point. 99% of the time people point to the ills of private equity, they are cherry picking some other definition. Usually, they make false equivalencies with Leveraged Buy Outs (LBOs) specifically.
In most of the cases discussed, whether the capital to do the deal came from private or public sources makes almost no difference.
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Private equity is a pretty useless term at this point. 99% of the time people point to the ills of private equity, they are cherry picking some other definition. Usually, they make false equivalencies with Leveraged Buy Outs (LBOs) specifically.
In most of the cases discussed, whether the capital to do the deal came from private or public sources makes almost no difference.