Beshore: Changing systems and staff increases both upside and downside risk
Brent Beshore · Mastering Micro Private Equity: Brent Beshore's Strategy for Wealth Generation · Jan 26, 2023 · at 12:05
Brent Beshore, founder of Permanent Equity, explains how aggressive operational intervention post-acquisition broadens the variance of potential business outcomes.
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“So if you don't come in and change anything, you should probably expect the company to perform kind of how it's performed in the past. the more you start changing systems and changing out people it increases the upside opportunity, but it also increases the downside opportunity.”
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