Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
6 Quick Stories We Are Following Today 5-5-25
Mon, 05 May
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In this episode, Scott Becker highlights six key business stories, including Skechers’ $9.4B sale to private equity, Warren Buffett stepping down from Berkshire Hathaway, and more.
Chapter 1: What are the six key business stories covered today?
Chapter 2: What major deal has Skechers announced?
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. We're going to walk you through six quick stories that we're following today. Let me start with the following. Skechers, the shoe company, announces a massive deal where they're going to sell an evaluation of $9.4 billion to private equity fund 3GS.
Chapter 3: Why is Apollo's deal activity at a standstill?
So that culminates a very long run for the family who founded Skechers and an amazing outcome. This will make the 85-year-old founder a billionaire plus and really amazing what they've done. Second, on the flip side of deal activity, Apollo, one of the largest private equity funds in the world and one of the largest private credit players as well,
Chapter 4: When is Warren Buffett stepping down from Berkshire Hathaway?
says that deal activity is largely at a standstill currently and we'll see how that continues to play out third another core business discussion and fascinating warren buffett this week at the berkshire hathaway meeting he's 94 he's at the best track record of almost any investor in the history of the world will step down as leading berkshire hathaway at the end of this year he'll still be ceo
Chapter 5: What financial state is Berkshire Hathaway in under Warren Buffett?
Chapter 6: What recent statement did President Trump make about student loans?
He's leaving the company, the fund, Berkshire Hathaway, whatever you want to call it exactly, with something like $300 billion in cash on hand to do deals. Just an amazing leadership, and it could not have anybody I respect more as a leader investor than Warren Buffett. Fourth, President Trump gets going again, says student loans, people have to pay their student loans.
There's just been this long term, there's been sort of a pause of people to pay student loans. President Trump turns that back on. You know, I know this is a politically dynamic issue. We're obviously from the school of thought that believes people should basically pay their loans. So it is what it is.
But also to be careful in how much loans you take out because so much of our education is not worthwhile today in terms of leading to the jobs and the incomes people want. That's the four-story project. Fifth, President Trump throws another sort of wrench into the game. He says that foreign films, films that are brought here from overseas should pay a high tariff.
Again, the thing about watching President Trump is he says something and then he pivots and evolves. So we'll see how this all plays out. Finally, six, the markets are relatively stable today after they started off down as there's some positive talk coming out of the White House and the administration about trade talks and more.
So again, those are six of the stories we're following today at the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Thank you for listening to the podcast. Thank you very, very much.
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