🗞️ WSO: Q&A - PE, MBA, and Life

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[Which PE Firms are Going Downhill?]() - "Not a direct answer to your question, but it does feel like this topic is usually way overdramatized on this site. Absent some severe organizational decay the pool of capital out there is generally large enough & growing. The tech funds that way overrotated in 2021 (Insight, Silver Lake) will have a tough vintage but LPs know the long-term tech opportunity remains compelling. Similar story to the megacaps that had difficult 08s (TPG, Bain, Warburg, etc) who have minted strong enough track records since. The cases of true “funds going downhill” you usually know when you see (key man departures, not raising for 5+ years, not actively deploying, etc.)" Paradise Means Leaving Thumb Drives Behind You’ve got enough things to worry about. A thumb drive full of deal docs and data shouldn’t be one of them. With SRS Acquiom, it doesn’t have to be. 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