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Ethos Capital, as per their website and business model, is a private equity firm, not a VC firm. Very different things. Hard to take people seriously when they
by spullara 7y ago
Ethos Capital, as per their website and business model, is a private equity firm, not a VC firm. Very different things. Hard to take people seriously when they don’t know the difference.
- jessaustin 7y agoAre you here to argue that PE people are somehow more ethical or better at business than VC people? That's going to be a laugh line for anyone who has ever been exposed to them.
- spullara 7y agoNope. Just trying to help people distinguish the two businesses. PE companies acquire private companies and run them. VC companies invest in founders and they run the company.
- jessaustin 7y agoSince we're striving for accuracy here, usually they acquire public firms and "take them private".
- QuesnayJr 7y agoThere are a lot of purely private transactions now -- they've already taken everybody private who wants to go private.
- zarriak 7y agoCalling it a VC firm is a much nicer thing to say than PE.