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> Firstly, I know what you’re thinking, this sounds outrageous, > it’s not at all realistic. Well, sorry to break it to you, but > this is what MOST of our
by biot 15y ago
> Firstly, I know what you’re thinking, this sounds outrageous,
> it’s not at all realistic. Well, sorry to break it to you, but
> this is what MOST of our deals look like. Yes, MOST.
Is this actually an investor who invests in deals? The domain is hidden behind a Florida privacy service and there's no name(s) attached to the book that's being peddled. Even the PayPal checkout shows only "TPE" as the seller.
> The Authors have invested Millions at top Private Equity firms!
Okay, but who are they? What firms? The post appears to be just teasers for getting you to buy the PDF. Even the PDF only has recommendations from anonymous positions at anonymous companies. If they really are VCs they should give the PDF away for free and get their name out there as the honest VCs. However, that goes counter to their assertion that "MOST" of their own dealings use the very trickery that they claim to expose.
- itsnotvalid 15y agoIt goes by a name called Peter Cartier (from various sources) but who knows if that even represents a real person. Please correct me if I am wrong, if this post is promoted by accounts that are frequently used or just dummies.
- biot 15y agoThis story and the first one were both submitted by username "flmyngo" whose only activity was submitting those two stories.
- itsnotvalid 15y agoSeems that hacker news' design is not adequate for fighting against carefully crafted spam.
- todsul 15y agoThey're not VCs, but private equity people. Big difference. Private equity doesn't want to get their "names out there". Quite the opposite. Public-to-private deals rely on secrecy in the early stages. I think the first article sounded very "private equity", this second one sounds a bit more VC-ish.
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