Jesse D. Serventi

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182 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 22 Jan

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How I Invest with David Weisburd · E288: Inside a PE Fund Ranked #1 in IRR, DPI, and TVPI · 22 Jan 2026 podcast

You have a talent dense organization that just raises everyone's game.

I think our people, our best people, they're raising his game, they're raising my game.

It is awesome to have people around us, even if they're less experienced, but you just see their passion and competence growing.

That makes everyone better, including us.

The new investors, largely people like we're very confident that the capital base is going to be stable over a long period of time.

I'd like to say that we figured it out right away, but it actually is a learning of ours.

Atif likes to talk about both our worst deal and our best deal we ever did.

It was in a company called Red Nucleus.

And this was done out of our second fund, which is a great fund.

But it was a business that we bought with $4 million of EBITDA.

We took it to $12 million of EBITDA and sold it, did very well for our investors.

And then that company continued to grow significantly after we exited with the team that we had put together, with the strategy that we had been executing.

As we've grown our knowledge and grown our confidence by observing what upmarket GPs are doing, we've realized that we're able to do this.

And so now there's no kind of dogmatic approach on our part that says, okay, when you double the EBITDA, now it's time to exit.

And as a result, we have a business that started with four of EBITDA and today is 50.

We have another one that started at three and today is 90 of EBITDA.

So I think that's actually a practice that we're proud of today and we think makes a lot of sense, but it's one that has been a learning of ours over time.

There's a lot we could talk about here.

I think a lot of private equity companies

has become what we say internally as investment banking plus.

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