Chuck Davis
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Stone Point rejects passive agreement and demands employees challenge senior leadership
“We're big at Stone Point on everyone speaking their mind, and we do not want people to be what I would call head bobbers. You look and see what the senior people want, where they're leaning, and you bob your head that way. We want people that make an independe…”
Stone Point is selling preferred hold companies due to compelling market valuations
“We have a number of companies that we're selling right now that we would rather hold, but it's just the prices are so compelling.”
PE firms compete with strategics using higher leverage and creative EBITDA adjustments
“Right now, private equity firms are very competitive with strategics, so businesses that are leverageable, people will put a lot more leverage often on businesses than we will.
People often will adjust EBITDA in ways that are quite creative.”
Successful investments naturally create their own exits regardless of upfront plans
“This is not meant to be a glib comment, but if this business succeeds,
There'll be lots of exit alternatives.
If this business does not succeed, all the things we tell you today about how wonderful the exit options will be are not going to be there.”
Stone Point provides target companies with warm customer introductions before investing
“And then you find out who they're looking to get as new customers, and we can help them with a warm introduction, and we often will do that before we even have a chance to invest. We try to help people before”
Elite operators are domain specialists, not generalist corporate managers
“Many of these folks have lived in their world their whole life, and they just know it inside and out. If you ask them to run another business, they're not Six Sigma GE trained people who can go from light bulbs to jet engines. They don't want to. They're in th…”