What Silicon Valley Doesn't Get About Private Equity with Brent Beshore

Brent Beshore (@BrentBeshore), founder and CEO of Adventur.es, joins Erik on this episode.They discuss:- What makes Adventur.es “the inverse of traditional private equity,” including why they don’t add debt to a company’s balance sheet when they purchase a company and intend to keep the existing leadership around.- What Silicon Valley doesn’t get about private equity, how it’s different from venture, and how VC and PE might interact in the future.- Some of the industries that Brent thinks are overlooked and the breakdown of some of their past investments.- The book he wrote, The Messy Marketplace, and the lessons it holds for business owners.- The state of the macro environment and how they think about it at Adventur.es.- How they evaluate potential investments and business partners, and his strategies for evaluating people in general.Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform. Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.

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