Podcast Episodes

What's Wrong in Private Equity (w/ Lee McCabe)

What if the future of private equity looks exactly like its past? The days of cheap debt and multiple expansion are over, so the only way to win goin…

1 month, 1 week ago

Parker Gals | "Private equity ≠ cost cutters" (w/ Angela McCoy, May River)

Cass sits down with Angela McCoy, Managing Director at May River, a private equity firm investing in lower middle market industrial businesses. Angel…

1 month, 1 week ago

Can You Still Trust Tech Due Diligence? (w/ Jason Gill & Kirby Montgomery, Code & Co.)

What if the thing founders are proudest of in diligence — "AI wrote most of our code" — is actually the reason investors should worry?

Jim sits down …

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Parker Gals: Caroline Carman, Rallyday Partners

In this episode of Parker Gals, Liz Xu sits down with her former JPMorgan colleague and friend Caroline Carman, Senior Associate at Rallyday Partners…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

How PE Firms Are Actually Using AI Right Now (w/ Kate Hopkins, OneGuide)

Devin and Cass sit down with Kate Hopkins, founder of OneGuide, to break down the 36 AI value creation plays private equity firms and portfolio compa…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Parker Gals: Maggie Pugel, Frontenac

In this episode, host Cass Ziebel sits down with Frontenac VP Maggie Pugel for a candid conversation about breaking into private equity the non-tradi…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Another False Start: PitchBook's H1 2026 Private Equity Data (w/ Steven Buibish)

The private equity market in 2026 was supposed to rip. So why has it fallen flat?

Devin sits down with Steven Buibish, CFA, Director of US Private Eq…

2 months ago

Introducing "Parker Gals": Meet Cass & Liz

Welcome to Parker Gals — the podcast by and for women in private equity. Hosts Cass Ziebel and Liz Xu kick off the very first episode from ParkerGale…

2 months ago

Private Equity's About to Get a Lot Less Private (w/ Kevin Hsu of Lumonic)

40% of PE firms and 60% of credit funds still track their portfolios on spreadsheets. That's now a way to monitor a few trillion in AUM. Private equi…

2 months, 1 week ago

PE GUY Meets an Actual PE Guy

PE GUY turned a Snapchat filter into millions of views and a seven-figure business. Host Devin Mathews (a real PE guy) conducts due diligence on John…

2 months, 1 week ago