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Silver Lake won't care. PE firms are used to being called locusts, pump and dump schemers, or worse, and they don't need to be liked to do what they do. Andre
by chalst 15y ago
Silver Lake won't care. PE firms are used to being called locusts, pump and dump schemers, or worse, and they don't need to be liked to do what they do.
Andreessen Horowitz will, though, not be happy about what happens to their reputation in Silicon Valley.
- suking 15y agoA.H. will probably just blame it all on Silver Lake - I believe A.H. was quite the minority shareholder anyways.
- raganwald 15y agoEven so, when tech companies are hiring, one of the things they do is trot out the list of investors to establish their credibility. The salient question is whether potential hires will (a) Forget all about this, (b) Remember it and blame Silver Lake, or (c) remember it vaguely and think A.H. was involved? I have no idea what the outcome will be, but I'm guessing that (b) is way less likely than (a) or (c).