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Based on this and similar headlines, it should be obvious by now that if you are a supplier to any business that is subsequently acquired by PE, you would be wise to demand cash on the barrelhead for sales to them.

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And if you're a customer you need to start looking for alternatives.

I've thought about making a website that just trawls press releases and PE firm sites to detect when a company has been bought by PE and adds the company to a list on the site/sends a notification to folks who have signed up.

And if you’re a voter you need to vote for people who will push back on this.

People don’t typically have a lot of choice to hop around between hospitals and medical providers (which is, of course, a strategic win for said PE groups). Even if you have choice, a growing number of Americans do not.

Finally a problem set well suited to AI/LLMs that is actually useful to society! Interesting idea, I really like it!

And if you're a voter, don't let them pretend they contributed to society and allow them to clean up their image and grab power. There is a candidate in my local mayor race, Harrison Roday, that was touting "running a software company" before he started trying to do things that would make him electable. Turns out he was a finance bro, that used to the money to try and enshitify some Chrome extensions and small software that is already doing well. And all his backing is from out of state to run for mayor. Whats worse is that it actually took a decent amount of research to find out how crappy his previous life was. He was a big consideration for my vote until I dug because I was curious about what kind of software he worked on.

https://thirdsouth.capital/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrisonroday/

https://cfreports.elections.virginia.gov/Committee/Index/eea...

https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/meet-the-candidates-har...

Thanks for doing the research! Important to not leave any place for people like this to hide.

There are PEs that arent outright evil. Some are known for even saving companies.

They just don't end up doing anything newsworthy. Lol

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