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Brent Beshore

Founder & CEO, Permanent Equity · 1 appearance on the record.

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investorfounderexecutiveauthor@BrentBeshore ↗LinkedIn ↗permanentequity.com ↗

He founded Permanent Equity, a firm that invests committed capital to acquire and hold small and mid-sized businesses indefinitely with minimal debt. He is the author of The Messy Marketplace and helped create events such as Capital Camp.

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3 assertions · 4 opinions · 13 insights · 9 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Brent argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Beshore: Alcohol is one of the biggest testosterone inhibitors in men
“Alcohol is one of, men, especially one of the biggest inhibitors of testosterone.”
Brent Beshore Jun 11, 2024 ▶ 46:18 Brent Beshore: Business Brilliance and Happiness at Home

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Everything Brent Beshore said on the Knowledge Project that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Disclosure
Beshore: Permanent Equity has never sold an acquired portfolio company
“We've never sold anything. So, I mean, we still own everything. I shouldn't keep caveat in that. It's not like we've sold anything.”
Brent Beshore Jun 11, 2024 ▶ 1:45:20 Brent Beshore: Business Brilliance and Happiness at Home
Disclosure
Beshore: Permanent Equity targets $3M free cash flow for platform acquisitions
“Minimum sort of three, three million dollars of free cashflow, not a hard and fast rule. We've done some smaller deals, but on average for new platforms were, you know, three million.”
Brent Beshore Jun 11, 2024 ▶ 1:48:47 Brent Beshore: Business Brilliance and Happiness at Home
Disclosure
Beshore: Permanent Equity manages capital committed on 30-year time horizons
“Getting to serve the families and the institutions that give us capital, the trust with their capital for 30 years, the amount of trust that they have with us to give somebody capital for 30 years.”
Brent Beshore Jun 11, 2024 ▶ 2:12:45 Brent Beshore: Business Brilliance and Happiness at Home
Opinion
Beshore: 'When Helping Hurts' is a foundational book on philanthropy
“There's a great book out there called when helping hurts. And it afterwards, actually somebody gave it to me and I read it. And I mean, you talk about being cut deeply. It's a book about when you try to help and it hurts people. It's one of the One of the best…”
Brent Beshore Jun 11, 2024 ▶ 24:05 Brent Beshore: Business Brilliance and Happiness at Home
Disclosure
Beshore: Permanent Equity waited four years between its first and second acquisitions
“From the time we bought the first business to the time I bought the second business was four years of toiling away and correcting and learning and trying to get a good foundation of capital and into position to do the next deal.”
Brent Beshore Jun 11, 2024 ▶ 2:08:13 Brent Beshore: Business Brilliance and Happiness at Home

The other half of the tape: Brent Beshore's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 14 times in 10 episodes on the Knowledge Project. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Shane Parrish 9Morgan Housel 4James Clear 1

Statements about Brent Beshore, by other people (1)

Insight
Parrish: Dirty Fuel Like Insecurity Inexhaustibly Drives Societal Economic Value
“Dirty fuel. It's just, it never goes out. Like you don't use it up. It just, you keep going with it and that drives in part society and it might drive that person to buy the yellow Ferrari or send their kid to the most expensive school, but they did that by cr…”
Shane Parrish Jan 20, 2026 ▶ 1:05:27 Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Brent Beshore: Business Brilliance and Happiness at Home Jun 11, 2024 1h 45m
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