How Private Equity Buried Payless: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/upshot/payless-private-equity-capitalism.html … Article tries (unsuccessfully) to condemn all PE, and capitalism generally, using Payless as the case study. But, some points raised are worth reflection and beg for nuance. PE is not a monolith. Here goes...
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Stuff happens. The only thing you can assume is that life won’t play out the way you predict. Sustainable businesses require a margin of safety — plenty of cash, redundancy, and time to get out of the muck and mire and think.pic.twitter.com/lDTogRvPus
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Piles of debt, a short shot clock, and high pressure create some phenomenal outcomes and a lot of lives destroyed. There’s a better way. Use less/little debt. Hire operators, not financiers, to run companies. Treat people as you'd want to be treated. Think long-term.
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To achieve this, sellers have to care more about who buys their company and what they do with it. LPs have to find GPs they can trust and lower their short-term return expectations. GPs must stop creating heads-I-win-tails-you-lose situations and aim to get rich slowly.
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If this sounds fanciful, you're probably right. Cynicism is usually accurate in the short term. But, we've tried to implement these ideas
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Absolutely, and don't underestimate the impact of youth. Don't know if this was an issue, but can imagine a bunch of young, smart, ambitious coastal PE guys, who haven't lived long enough to know better.
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