Beshore: Permanent Equity has never bought a business with debt on it
Brent Beshore · Brent Beshore: Business Brilliance and Happiness at Home · Jun 11, 2024 · at 1:13:25
Brent Beshore discusses how high-quality, family-owned small-to-medium businesses are organically operated without balance sheet leverage.
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“We've never seen a business that we want to purchase ever in the history of the firm that has debt on it. Like when we buy it, that has debt on it.”
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