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re: My Experience with Private Equity
Posted on 10/10/25 at 9:59 am to HonCHO
Posted on 10/10/25 at 9:59 am to HonCHO
Private equity is a scourge to modern medicine.
PE-owned hospitals have worse staffing, higher mortality, and higher costs.
Meanwhile physician-owned hospitals have better outcomes but the affordable care act made it illegal for physicians to own hospitals (but not massive corporations). Thanks Obama.
If you’re a patient, make sure you know which hospitals near you are owned by private equity. Avoid HCA facilities like the plague (Medical City for those in Texas).
PE-owned hospitals have worse staffing, higher mortality, and higher costs.
Meanwhile physician-owned hospitals have better outcomes but the affordable care act made it illegal for physicians to own hospitals (but not massive corporations). Thanks Obama.
If you’re a patient, make sure you know which hospitals near you are owned by private equity. Avoid HCA facilities like the plague (Medical City for those in Texas).
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Posted on 10/10/25 at 10:18 am to Azazello
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Wait until everyone finds out who the LPs are in PE funds
Pretty much everyone with a 401k, pension or insurance has exposure to PE.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 10:22 am to billjamin
The fees on private equity are just outrageous. The investments are usually subpar or worse, and you pay huge fees. If the investment somehow does well, the investment manager takes the cut, and you don't actually benefit from the perfromance. Heads you lose a little, tails you lose a lot situation.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 10:30 am to Upperdecker
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The beautiful aspect is the company dies a slow, painful death, and in its place creates a new opportunity for another company to rise up and take its place
"Beautiful" in terms of a precise high speed look at the richest doubling their wealth while jerking around regular folks instead of providing good, stable jobs that could be the backbone of solid communities.
This post was edited on 10/10/25 at 12:32 pm
Posted on 10/10/25 at 10:35 am to Shwapp
I did. Start looking for something else. I would never work again for a Berkshire-owned company.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 11:19 am to Azazello
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ait until everyone finds out who the LPs are in PE funds A lot of people who hate PE are probably invested in it, they just dont know it.
I’m invested in a bunch of shite I hate
Posted on 10/10/25 at 11:28 am to Kingpenm3
One particular problem with veterinary medicine is that small clinics were pretty successful. So successful that the businesses were too big to be purchased by junior vets coming out of school or starting their practice because these junior vets have $150k–$200k in student loans.
Moreover, new veterinarians seem to be overwhelmingly women. A trend is they want to work as a junior vet for 5 years and then quit to stay home—no interest in becoming partner or equity owner.
These factors lead to older owners having no one providing an exit outside of PE, which, I agree has made the industry much worse for clients and for clinic employees.
Moreover, new veterinarians seem to be overwhelmingly women. A trend is they want to work as a junior vet for 5 years and then quit to stay home—no interest in becoming partner or equity owner.
These factors lead to older owners having no one providing an exit outside of PE, which, I agree has made the industry much worse for clients and for clinic employees.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 12:08 pm to theamericandynasty
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The fees on private equity are just outrageous. The investments are usually subpar or worse, and you pay huge fees. If the investment somehow does well, the investment manager takes the cut, and you don't actually benefit from the perfromance. Heads you lose a little, tails you lose a lot situation.
“Outrageous” is subjective, but your performance comment is bullshite.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 12:46 pm to HonCHO
PE’s goal is to flip their assets within 3-5 years. Wife’s (no pics) company got bought by PE 4 years ago and they just banned all non-essential travel and other activities. Clearly getting ready to go on the block.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 12:51 pm to Cosmo
University of New Orleans ain't producing any PE Finance MDs or VPs lol.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 12:53 pm to HonCHO
Mine is pretty bad. They are using numbers to make decisions that destroy revenue and slowly erode the brands (HVAC/Plumbing).
Plus in this particular case, consumers are doing their homework in this tough economy.
Plus in this particular case, consumers are doing their homework in this tough economy.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 12:56 pm to HonCHO
Same experience. I just left a company that had one come in. They take a good thing for the employees and customers and ruin it.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 1:05 pm to Mo Jeaux
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Thanks, man. I’ve been in the industry for 15 years.
What's the AUM at your firm?
Posted on 10/10/25 at 1:13 pm to HonCHO
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They demand 20% revenue growth for all sales reps no ifs, ands, or buts.
This is actually incredibly reasonable
Posted on 10/10/25 at 1:21 pm to HonCHO
Yet another reason why PE can get fricked.
It's malignant cancer
It's malignant cancer
Posted on 10/10/25 at 1:24 pm to H2O Tiger
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What's the AUM at your firm?
Why would that matter?
I’m an attorney. I’m not in-house.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 2:05 pm to HonCHO
The more oppressed people suffer, the more money I make.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 6:58 pm to HonCHO
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Family company of about 200-250 employees that I work for sold majority ownership of company to PE group. PE comes in and the first year is “business as usual”. CEO and management stays the same for the most part. They are very deceitful. Second year they start cleaning house. They insert their own CEO, HR gets wiped out and replaced with their own little moles, and then they really start trimming the fat in other departments. They demand 20% revenue growth for all sales reps no ifs, ands, or buts. Live and die by the numbers. Management by fear. They try to get the operating cost down and profit up as much as possible with the end goal of selling the company for a quick profit. They are leveraged against their investors and the bank. It’s basically like flipping houses except they’re flipping businesses. They’ve micromanaged us like I’ve never seen before, and turned a pretty good company in to a horrible place to work. Morale is lower than I’ve ever seen. PE will be the end of America.
private equity is predatory and much of it should be ILLEGAL.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 7:05 pm to Warfox
It’s often times value destructive and dependent on timing but those guys don’t survive long. To say it should be illegal is a stretch….what exactly should be illegal? Owning a company?
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