private equity

5 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 5 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Sep 22, 2023 by Angela Ahrendts · across every show →

Everything said about private equity, oldest first

Sep 22, 2023 negative
Opinion
Ahrendts: Private equity firms often mistakenly think creative founders are "stupid"
“So many private equity, so many companies go in and they buy these companies and they think the founders are stupid because they don't talk the same language. They don't understand who they are.”
Angela Ahrendts Sep 22, 2023 ▶ 13:13 Angela Ahrendts: How to unite a team (Part 1) | Masters of Scale
Nov 9, 2023 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Nocera: Private equity took over nursing homes while major hospitals became for-profit
“And so nursing homes have basically been taken over by private equity and hospitals have become for profit the big ones anyway.”
Joe Nocera Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 4:02 Your pandemic business takeaways are wrong | Masters of Scale
Nov 9, 2023 negative
Opinion
Nocera: Private Equity No Longer Serves Society and Only Extracts Capital
“Whatever private equity used to do that was useful to society. No, not anymore. They just want to pull money out. And the nursing homes are a horrible, horrible example of that.”
Joe Nocera Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 19:44 Your pandemic business takeaways are wrong | Masters of Scale
Nov 9, 2023 negative
Opinion
McLean: Leaders hid behind epidemiologists and market forces
“Leaders need to be leaders, and that means not hiding behind other people, and our leaders hid behind epidemiologists in the crisis, and they've hidden behind the gods of the market for the last number of decades, and refuse to do things like, say, maybe it do…”
Bethany McLean Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 8:33 Your pandemic business takeaways are wrong | Masters of Scale
May 8, 2026 negative
Opinion
Founders should avoid selling restaurant brands to private equity
“And the reason why I try to talk these business founders into not selling to private equity is, and look, they're not all bad. And so, I'm not talking about all of them, but a lot of them are. And look, if you have, Investors, if you have shareholders that the…”
Todd Graves May 8, 2026 ▶ 16:34 Raising Cane's CEO Todd Graves: Building a billion-dollar brand on one menu item | Masters of Scale
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