Larry Kochard
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 11 Feb
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And there is a certain beauty in that discipline.
But I do think you need to look for exceptions.
I also think, though, that what you want to be cognizant of is there are multiple factors that can lead to success and failure.
And the failure might not be just bad failure.
It could be just mediocrity.
And some of it is one of the size, but some of them is just incentive alignment, alignment between the LP and the GP.
What is their ability to manage a team?
There are a handful of firms that are just exceptional
at hiring, developing, keeping, incentivizing, rewarding people the right way and keeping them together such that they can get bigger.
And there are other firms that just become a mess.
And one of the things that we look for also is firms that offer multiple products.
You start off of whether you're a buyout firm that gets bigger, and then you start offering different buyout strategies.
Maybe you start offering a smaller strategy like you were originally, and then a European strategy, an Asian strategy.
You then maybe start doing a credit fund.
And so it's tells like that.
characteristics that change beyond just the size that are also something that are red flags for me.
So it's almost, again, this mosaic approach as opposed to just one thing being the death knell.
There's certain things that, you know, obviously you can't live with.
Any sense that they are bad actors and they're not good partners, you're gone.
But are the other things, or if it's just size, you may give them a pass if they're good at managing the team, they're good at managing a bigger portfolio.
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