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Private Equity FunCast
Your favorite GP's favorite podcast. Occasionally insightful, always entertaining. Deep dives into how private equity works, what happens after the deal closes, how money gets raised, and how companies get bought and sold. And everything in between with healthy doses of pop culture and humor. Straight from the team at ParkerGale Capital. For educational and entertainment purposes only. Not investment advice. Additional disclosures at www.parkergale.com.
Episodes
- Private Equity FunCast
Scoping Market Due Diligence with Parthenon/EY
We're back with Jay Bartlett from EY-Parthenon talking about scoping due diligence processes for private equity deals with special guest, Joe Repp. This is…
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More Stack Overflow with Alan Williamson
A follow-up conversation with the Mad Scotsman, Alan Williamson. This time we're talking about the technology section of the 2018 Stack Overflow developer…
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Stack Overflows 2018 Developer Survey
The Mad Scotsman, Alan Williamson, returns to the funcast for a lively discussion of Stack Overflow's 2018 Developer survey. We talk about all things…
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The Evolving Role of the Operating Partner with Jay Bartlett
Jay Bartlett from Parthenon is back on the funcast to talk about the evolving role of the operating partner in private equity. The EY-Parthenon team has been…
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The Fatal Flaw Episode
Jim and Devin talk about the one or two characteristics that can blow an otherwise terrific executive out of the water. It's Bill Simmons' 90/10 rule -- only…
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March Madness 2018
Our day jobs have been getting in the way of our podcasting ... but the long wait is over, we are back in the saddle with our annual March Madness Episode…
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A Brief History of Computing
Jim and Devin walk through the list of technology companies where Jim has worked over the years. We talk about the lessons learned as they apply to PE-owned…
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The Case For 1st Time Funds with PitchBook
Devin and Jim kick-off their collaboration with PitchBook, the leading private equity and private company database now owned by Morningstar. Nizar and Dylan…
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Macroeconomics and Private Equity
Devin and Jim talk about the major macroeconomic factors that affect Private Equity. Here's a hint -- it's mostly a robust economy and lower interest rates.
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Halloween 2017 Special
Devin and Jim talk about the four basic Halloween villains -- Vampires, Frankenstein, Werewolves and Mummies -- and how PE deals often end up as one of these…
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Welcome Cici Zheng
Devin & Jim welcome ParkerGale's newest teammate to the FunCast. Cici joined us from Bain & Co to manage our go-to-market activities across the portfolio. Cici…
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How To Teach People Stuff
Devin and his daughter Quinn spend an hour with high school English teacher Nathaniel Small on exploring the challenges of teaching people. We talk about why…
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Buyouts from the Sellers' Side
Listener Request! Devin & Jim take a look at private equity deals from the sellers' side of the table and cover questions such as: How do you select a PE…
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What the heck is a Digital Strategy?
Talking with Anthony Onesto of the Konrad Group about "Digital Strategy". It means different things to different people and we make an attempt to define the…
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Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition
Devin and Jim sit down with NextGen Growth Partners founder Brian O'Connor to discuss search funds, pledge funds, traditional funds and all the similarities…
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Summer Reading List
Devin and Jim take a random walk down their reading list of favorite business and research books. We mention some old favorites and some hidden gems and talk…
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Confusing PE Jargon Explained
Devin (and Jim from behind the sound board) welcomes back Cass and Ben for a mad-cap review of all the confusing terms and phrases thrown around the typical…
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What is a Dividend Recap?
Devin and Jim break down the what, how, why and when of the often maligned, but rarely explained, process of PE funds taking money out of companies before the…
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How to develop an Investment Thesis
Devin and Jim go deep on their process for developing investment theses. They cover: where to start, tools to hone your thesis, how to fight confirmation bias…
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Ship of Theseus Episode
Devin and Jim were inspired to delve into the "Ship of Theseus" story in the first episode from season two of Gladwell's "Revisionist History". If we change…
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AE Marketing Group Interview with Kristina Heinze
Rebroadcast of Brian Walker from AE Marketing Group interviewing partner Kristina Heinze-- talking about leadership, women in private equity and branding.
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Talent Management 201
Devin sits down with Myra D'Souza, ParkerGale's head of talent management. They cover how to get into private equity from the HR side of the house; what PE…
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Customer Analytics 101
An introduction to customer analytics with Ben Falloon and Jake Petoskey from the ParkerGale team. The first of several episodes tackling the tricky topic of…
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Makers vs. Menders -- The Corgibytes Interview
Jim talks with Andrea Goulet and M. Scott Ford from Corgibytes -- specialists in software remodeling. This is a continuing conversation on technical debt, the…
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Jake? Jake's my boy!
Jim and Devin sit down with ParkerGale Principal Jake Petoskey to discuss his path to private equity thru the operating side of the house. Similar to past…
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Talent Management 101
We spend an hour talking with Anthony Onesto from the Konrad Group. We've known Anthony as a cutting-edge thinker in the Human Capital Management space for…
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Book Club : Thinking Fast and Slow
Limited Partner, John McCarthy, is back for another book club episode. This time we talk about Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow -- and how it applies…
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Annual March Madness Episode 2017
By popular demand ... it's our annual March Madness Episode from two guys that know nothing about college basketball but love bracketology. It's the Elite…
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A Brief Introduction to Information Security
Jim spends an hour talking about Information Security with Evolve Security's CEO -- Paul Petefish. We keep bumping into Pete and his team at 1871 - and figured…
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How to Interview Good
Jim, Devin and Ryan sit down to discuss why people are so bad at interviewing and what they did to fix their own mistakes. They cover the strategy and tactics…
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Fundraising Part IV -- Interview with an LP
Limited Partner Mike McClure sits down for a discussion about the other side of the fundraising table. We cover: the first meeting, following up and what can…
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Updated ParkerGale Technology Stack - Basecamp eats Slack
Over the past year we've changed out a number of tools and software that we use to manage the fund. Come have a listen and find out what things we've moved off…
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We're Hiring!
ParkerGale is looking to add three professional to our team -- two Principals focused on Operations and one Associate for the Investment team. Take a listen to…
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Fundraising Part III
The latest episode in our Fundraising series. We spend an hour talking with John Cosgrove from Beartooth Advisors - the team that worked as our agents on the…
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Why Due Diligence Fails
Jim and Devin spend an hour talking with Jay Bartlett and Scott Orleck from Parthenon-EY Ernst & Young LLP. We've worked extensively with Jay and Scott on…
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Fundraising Part II
The second episode of our trifecta covering the raising of ParkerGale's first fund. This episode starts off where we left our intrepid heroes just after their…
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Book Club: "The Most Important Thing"
Devin and ParkerGale Limited Partner John McCarthy continue their book club series with an investing classic, "The Most Important Thing" by Howard Marks, the…
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Book Club: "Rumsfeld's Rules"
Devin and ParkerGale Limited Partner John McCarthy kick off their book club series with an unusual choice, "Rumsfeld's Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business…
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Fundraising: Part 1
Devin and Jim spend an hour talking about the strategy and tactics of raising ParkerGale's first fund. This episode covers the pre-launch up to the fund's…
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DDOS -- An infinite number of kids on an infinite number of school busses
Jim and Alan talk about a scary subject on our Halloween episode -- Distributed Denial of Service attacks. Two weeks ago the internet experienced an…
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Talking Tech with a Coding Bootcamp Graduate
We had a great conversation with Kevin Hurley, a recent graduate from Fullstack Academy. Kevin is a high school math teacher who caught the coding bug and…
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Social Media Strategies for Middle Market B2B Companies
Jim talks about all things social media with Cappy Popp and John Maver from Thought Labs -- a leading Digital Marketing Strategy company. We've worked with…
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Should you consider hiring graduates from a coding bootcamp
Alan and Jim spend a fun hour talking with Zeke Nierenberg, Academic Director/Chicago from Fullstack Academy. Fullstack teaches qualified non-programmers to…
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Out on the cutting edge with Go!
Alan and Jim spend an hour talking with Ben Johnson, author of BoldDB and and freelance Go developer. The Go language is a relatively new open source…
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ParkerGale Visits the "Journeys" Podcast
Devin sits down with Jeremie Bacon, CEO and Founder of Synap, to discuss Private Equity, Managing People and Movie Quotes.
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Influencer Marketing -- Does it add value for B2B companies?
Jim is back talking with Brian Walker, CEO of AE Marketing Group on the topic of Influencer Marketing. Does it work for B2B companies? Why or Why Not? What…
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If it isn't broken there's no need to upgrade it
Alan and Jim spend a fast half hour talking when you should consider upgrading older pieces of custom (homegrown) software. You don't have to upgrade older…
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A Brief History of Application Programming Interfaces -- and why you need them.
Jim and Alan spend an hour arguing about whether you should consider bolting an application programming interface onto older applications as a path to…
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A Founder's Guide to Brand Marketing -- It's Not About Advertising
The first of many conversations with Brian Walker CEO of AE Marketing Group. We've found that Marketing is often the third wheel at small companies -- behind…
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How do PE firms differentiate themselves?
We all know there are tons of Private Equity funds. So what are the ways they try to stand out from the crowd? We cover the four biggies: Focus, Size, Sourcing…
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Slowing Down Sales ... On Purpose!
Alan, Jim and Kristina talk about a rare phenomenon in technology -- slowing down sales -- intentionally! Faced with the need to undertake some major software…
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Migrating Legacy Applications with Amazon WorkSpaces
We recently had to find a home for a legacy client/server accounting application, running in a location that was far, far away. The software came to us through…
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Surviving in the Valley of Anguish
Jim and Alan talk in detail about the Valley of Anguish and how to survive it. All large projects (ERP implementations, software re-writes, data center moves)…
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Private Equity
Devin and Jim discuss the seven deadly sins of private equity -- sins that will turn a good deal into a bad deal. -- Pride: Don't admit what you don't know. --…
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Is Business School Worth It?
Devin interviews podcast darling Kevin Fitzgerald on his return to private equity after two years at Harvard Business School. Kevin talks about why he went…
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Don't Make These Mistakes When Implementing NetSuite
Jim talks with our old friend and colleague, Dirk Shimpach about the most common mistakes we make when implementing NetSuite. We've done six implementations…
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DevOps for Founders and CEOs
Alan and Jim discuss DevOps -- the intersection of software development and managing the deployment and operations of software. We provide a simple layman's…
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Debunking The Failure Mythology
Devin and Jim spend some time talking about the "Failure Mythology" -- the idea that you need to fail in a big way on the path to building a great company…
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Radio Killed the Podcast Star
Small change of pace. Here's a replay of Kristina's WGN Business Lunch interview talking about private equity, being a mom and other fun stuff.
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Bootstrapping & Selling Your Software Company
Devin sits down with Dave Will, the founder of Peach New Media, a software company he founded, bootstrapped and recently sold to AccelKKR. Dave gets…