Alex Smith
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32,670 appearances
416 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2016
last heard 5d ago
Alex Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Melissa was at UCSF, gave a grand rounds about the rise of private equity and really described the uptake of, or I don't know what, the rapid growth of private equity across many fields, the financing.
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And when you think, you know, we had Melissa on previously in a podcast with Lauren Hunt and I think Claire and Kuda about
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private equity gobbling up hospice.
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And what I loved about the grand rounds you gave here at UCSF was it described the bigger landscape of like, what are the motivations of private equity?
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What are they doing here in terms of acquiring companies, breaking them up?
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How do they make a profit?
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How do they finance these acquisitions?
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What's going on with the mergers, the vertical and the horizontal?
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We don't have time for a 40, 50 minute grand rounds, but we'd love for you to give our listeners some sense of what's behind this growth, because it's not just in hospices.
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It's happening in assisted livings.
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It's happening in nursing homes as well.
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Yeah.
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Melissa, I remember in your grand rounds, you gave an example of private equity, how they start before healthcare.
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I don't remember what that example was, but it was like their success story of we did this and we broke up this company and we made it profitable in this way.
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And then they came to healthcare and it seems to be somewhat different.
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Although they're trying to replicate those experiences.
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Does that ring a bell to you?
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Is that?
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No?
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Okay, maybe not.
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