Podcast Episodes

Measure Engineering Like You Measure Sales (w/ Dan Bender & Kirby Montgomery, Code & Co.)

In 1982, Bill Atkinson made Apple's Lisa faster by deleting 2,000 lines of code, and the management form asked how many he wrote. Forty-four years la…

1 day, 14 hours ago

Parker Gals | Trust Over Transactions: The Heart of Private Equity (w/ Nori Welles-Gertz, ParkerGale)

What does it really take to build trust in private equity over a five-to-seven-year hold?

Cass sits down with her colleague Nori Welles-Gertz, a prin…

3 days, 14 hours ago

The Deal Closed. Now What?

Investment diligence is all about answering two questions: Do we want to own this business? And what would we do with it if we did?

But then the deal…

1 week, 1 day ago

Parker Gals | Building a Med Spa Roll-Up from Scratch (w/ Amanda Blank, Founders Beauty Group)

First, she sketched a med spa roll-up on maternity leave. Then, several law firms said it couldn't be done. Now? She owns five practices.

Cass sits d…

1 week, 3 days ago

11 Years as a PE-Backed CFO: What Sponsors Actually Want (w/ Jon Apter, Accordion)

He left private equity, took a 75% pay cut, and joined a 12-person startup that was still finding its footing. Now, Jon Apter helps oversee 1,600 emp…

2 weeks, 1 day ago

Parker Gals | From Advising to Investing: Building a Career in PE (w/ Katie Yuan, Hg Capital)

What does it take to move from banking to the buyside, and what do you have to figure out once you're there?

Liz sits down with Katie Yuan, a private…

2 weeks, 2 days ago

Relationships are the Atomic Unit of Deal Flow (w/ Ken Fine, CEO of Affinity)

We built our sourcing model around one goal: know every owner of every software company long before they decide to sell. Ken Fine, Affinity's CEO, jo…

3 weeks, 2 days ago

Parker Gals | How a College Point Guard Built a PE Career (w/ Brogan Magnarelli, Riverspan Partners)

Cass sits down with Brogan Magnarelli, Principal at Riverspan, to talk about her untraditional path into private equity — from point guard at Harvard…

3 weeks, 3 days ago

Diminishing Returns to Scale in Private Equity (w/ Andrew Akers, PitchBook)

Devin's mom's only instruction to her financial advisor was "the number should never go down." Downside protection is often the most attractive part …

4 weeks, 1 day ago

Parker Gals | Why Private Equity is for Everyone (w/ Jessica Patton, 5th Century Partners)

What does it look like to "plant seeds" so aggressively that serendipity starts looking like a strategy? This week on Parker Gals, Cass sits down wit…

1 month ago