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Eric Brooks

Founder and Managing Partner, Ethos Capital. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Erik Brooks leads Ethos Capital, an operator-led private equity firm that executes approximately one middle-market deal per year. Before founding Ethos in 2019, he spent 20 years as a managing partner at Abry Partners, later directing Ethos's consolidation of Donuts and Afilias into Identity Digital.

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Everything Eric Brooks said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

Ethos Capital equity check sizes range from $100M to $500M
“We've made equity investments of a hundred million dollars. We've made equity investments of five hundred million dollars.”
Eric Brooks Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 43:26 Operator-Led Private Equity at Ethos - Erik Brooks (EP.504)
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Identity Digital is the world's largest owner of top-level domain names
“Identity Digital is the largest owner of what's called a top level domain name.”
Eric Brooks Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 46:43 Operator-Led Private Equity at Ethos - Erik Brooks (EP.504)
Ethos includes all operating partners in front-end and back-end deal roundtables
“For every deal that we do, we have two moments in time on the front end and the back end where we have these round tables where every one of the partners is involved in helping us on the front end develop, we call them acceleration vectors, ideas for us to hav…”
Eric Brooks Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 38:11 Operator-Led Private Equity at Ethos - Erik Brooks (EP.504)
Ethos Capital builds an operational support hierarchy bypassing traditional financial modelers
“Within that operating support system, we are building out principal, vice president, associate. They're just different skill sets than somebody who's grown up in the world of financial modeling and deal diligence.”
Eric Brooks Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 46:12 Operator-Led Private Equity at Ethos - Erik Brooks (EP.504)

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