"Individuals are just as capable of doing this," Yes, but fiduciaries aren't (and even VCs generally try not to). " there are plenty of adequately run compani

"Individuals are just as capable of doing this," Yes, but fiduciaries aren't (and even VCs generally try not to). " there are plenty of adequately run companies owned by PE Define "adequate" and which ones are they? I've certainly experienced directly and indirectly enough to know I'm quite burned on them, and I have yet to meet a single person who enjoyed dealing with one, that wasn't one; anyone on the receiving end of endless cost cutting, sell leasebacks, forced vendor changes to more closely align with portfolio choices regardless of sense, etc. No, the people who seem to love PEs are either Ayn Rand's fluffer contingent, adjacently or are making money off one already without having to be subjected to their profoundly absent graces. Pass.