Why Private Equity Operating Partners Can't Trust Their Own KPIs

Private Equity Data Guy · Sep 17, 2026 · 44m · transcript

This week I sat down with Vinay Raman, the CEO of CAARMO, to talk about the gap between what leadership teams believe is happening inside their company and what is actually happening on the ground. Vinay has spent thirteen years studying that gap. He walked me through the fifteen questions his firm uses to score where a leadership team agrees and where members quietly disagree, and the map his team builds to show exactly where the disagreement lives.

We talked about what happens after a private equity firm buys a company and replaces its leadership team, why a system built for twenty three…