Beshore: Permanent Equity avoids putting debt on portfolio companies
Brent Beshore · Mastering Micro Private Equity: Brent Beshore's Strategy for Wealth Generation · Jan 26, 2023 · at 4:44
Brent Beshore, founder and CEO of Permanent Equity, explains how his firm's capital structure differs from traditional leveraged private equity.
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“We're very different than traditional private equity in, in the sense that we don't typically put any debt on the companies.”
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