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Private Equity FunCast — 322 episodes

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1

Private Equity is Coming For Your 401(k) (w/ PitchBook's Nizar Tarhuni)

2

Will AI Kill Consulting? (w/ IGS CEO Matt Umscheid)

3

How Private Equity Is Rethinking AI & Tech Due Diligence (According to Code & Co.)

4

What's Working NOW At Private Equity Owned Companies

5

Inside Private Equity's AI-led Transformation (w/ Kyle Roemer of Accordion)

6

How We Broke Into Private Equity

7

The Secret Formula to Drive Your Company's Growth

8

The Right Way to Hire Salespeople

9

How Operating Partners Create Value in Private Equity

10

The Evolution of PE Ops

11

10 Lessons From 10 Years Running Our Own Private Equity Firm

12

The Private Equity Glossary - 50(ish) Terms You Should Know

13

The Ghost of Software Future

14

When And How To Sell Your Company

15

You Just Bought A Company. Now What?

16

How Private Equity ACTUALLY Buys Companies

17

How to Survive Raising Your First Private Equity Fund

18

How do you start a private equity firm from scratch?

19

Private Equity Predictions 2026

20

Software Holdcos in Australia

21

AI-First (Whatever That Means): Hiring Product & Engineering Leaders with Sean Lucq from SPMB

22

Modernizing Legacy Systems: The CNX Journey from Green Screens to Great Screens

23

Marionettes, Metrics, and Medieval French Lit: A Conversation on UX and Life with Leah Reich

24

Exit-Ready Marketing: Shiv Narayanan on Making Marketing Measurable in PE-Backed Companies

25

Continuation Vehicles 101 with Houlihan Lokey

26

Real-Time Inflation Tracking and Forecasting: A Deep Dive into Open Brand's Proprietary Consumer Price Index

27

From Hype to Impact: Deploying GenAI in Real Businesses with Chris Taylor of Fractional AI

28

Open Brand's AI-Powered Market Intelligence Revolution

29

Shock and Nawww : DeepSeek and the Future of LLMs

30

Predictions and Strategies for 2025

31

Enhancing Technical Due Diligence with SEMA Software

32

AI-Powered observability with Jeremy Burton

33

From Startup to Search Fund: Navigating Entrepreneurship with Phillip Weinstein

34

Product-Market Fit with Rob Snyder

35

ARR Lending with PNC

36

Exit Readiness as a PE-Backed CFO

37

Understanding the Agile/Agility Ecosystem

38

How to Avoid Product Pessimism + Build a Better Sales Pitch (With Special Guest April Dunford)

39

Big Band Software

40

Getting Real About Value Creation in PE

41

The View From Europe with Flex Capital

42

Mastering Business Storytelling: Strategies for Effective Communication in Private Equity

43

Revolutionizing Investment Strategies: Harnessing Low-Code/No-Code with Jon Kragh

44

The Incredible i Episode

45

AI for Investment: A Platform Disruption

46

10 Lurking Problems for Sellers with Bill Snow

47

It's Restructuring Time!

48

Mergers and Acquisitions with Bill Snow

49

It's the 10 Year Anniversary of the PE Funcast

50

Generative AI: Implications for PE Investors

51

PE Partner and the CEO

52

What is the role of an Operating Partner at a private equity fund?

53

AlixPartners 8th Annual PE Leadership Survey

54

What's a Software Company Worth?

55

More Working with Private Equity from the Portfolio CXO Perspective

56

Working with Private Equity from the Portfolio CXO Perspective

57

Technical Due Diligence with Code & Co

58

Think Like a CTO with Alan Williamson

59

M&A Rollups with Matt Lynch

60

Demystifying Executive Coaching

61

How PE firms use the Jobs-To-Be-Done framework to drive a high-growth product strategy

62

The Digging In Episode

63

Defining Your Ideal Customer Profile

64

Value Creation through Human Capital with David Cohen, Partner at Kelso and Company

65

What is Human Capital Due Diligence? A lot more than you think.

66

DevOps with Dave Mangot

67

They Ask, You Answer with Marcus Sheridan

68

Lessons Learned from Integrating Companies - and why you need an Integration Management Office (IMO)

69

The Increasingly Important Role Talent is Playing in Private Equity

70

Mastering the Basics of B2B Marketing (w/ Special Guest Elias Rubel)

71

March Madness 2022 -- Final Four

72

March Madness 2022 - Sweet Sixteen

73

The Prospecting Debate

74

Cybersecurity Insurance and Litigation with Peter Halprin

75

Nailing Your Product Positioning with April Dunford

76

Everything you wanted to know about data lists -- but were afraid to ask

77

Community Building In Our Portfolio

78

Annual 2022 Predictions Show

79

We're Hiring a Platform Team!

80

Annual Holiday Episode on the Funcast

81

The Great Resignation with Tim Schumm, CEO of Lucas James Talent Partners

82

We're Hiring! Associate Position Overview

83

A Transformation Story

84

Purpose and Culture in a Post-COVID World with Amanda Lannert

85

Building a Better Sales Team

86

What We've Learned about People Ops and Culture

87

Canadian entrepreneurship and M&A, a discussion with Pierre Chamberland

88

Limited Partner Questions You Must Know

89

Commercial Diligence with Cici Zheng

90

Dean's Hot Takes

91

How BluWave Helps PE Shrink the World

92

Software Buyout Lingo Explained

93

Selling a Portfolio Company

94

What Makes a Good Board Member with Jason Heltzer

95

Talking Shop with Kelly Cornelis from LaSalle Capital

96

Software Buyouts in Germany

97

Why NPS is one of the most important metrics we track as a PE firm

98

The Case for 1st Time CEOs

99

The Board Perspective of People Operations

100

CEO Interview - Todd Dauchy from SMA Technologies

101

WomenHack: Helping Diverse People Get Hired in Tech

102

What Makes a Good Board Meeting Deck?

103

Leadership During Periods of Disruption

104

Training and Enabling Effective Sales Teams with ClozeLoop

105

Survey Results for March Madness 2021 Best Business Books Brackets

106

March Madness 2021 Best Business Books Bracket -- Part I

107

How we think about Hiring

108

Friends of the Firm Series: Avante Capital with Ivelisse Simon

109

Career Advice from Chicago Booth Professor Chris McGowan - Part 2

110

Career Advice from Chicago Booth Professor Chris McGowan - Part 1

111

Mostly-Annual Predictions Show for 2021

112

Deal Perspectives: An Associate, a Principal and a Partner Talk Roles and Responsibilities

113

CXO seeking PE position: How to stand out in a crowded talent market

114

Halloween 2020

115

Welcome to ParkerGale Ops, Cass

116

Why aren't there more women in Private Equity?

117

Leadership, Culture, and Private Equity with AlixPartners

118

How We Do Leadership Development

119

DealCloud at ParkerGale

120

The Managerial Scouting Report

121

Debt for PE Buyouts in Times of Uncertainty

122

The Valley of Anguish

123

Management Lessons for PE from The Last Dance

124

Rebroadcast of "Mind of the CEO"

125

Anatomy of a Security Assessment

126

Part II : How the world of sports thinks about culture

127

How the world of sports thinks about culture

128

March Madness 2020 – Slightly Delayed

129

Quick Information Security Suggestions for Remote Work

130

[Replay] A Parade of Terribles: Founder Legal Traps to Avoid

131

The Second City, "Yes AND," and Private Equity

132

What is Customer Success? And why should you care about it?

133

Interview with Dean Brown, CEO of Ipro Tech

134

Why does the PE firm care about your product roadmap?

135

How we link Product Strategy to Value Creation

136

How we think about Value Creation - Risk Mitigation, Cost Reduction and Revenue Growth

137

Building Effective Teams and Healthy Organizations

138

2020 Predictions Show

139

Interview with Stacey Kacek, CEO of OnePlus Systems

140

When process automation misses the mark

141

How we use talent reviews, the 9box, and succession planning

142

You Need Win-Loss Analysis with Cici Zheng

143

Inside the Deal - Three perspectives on how a deal gets done

144

Strategies for Technology Transitions

145

Hiring Technical Leaders for Non-Technical People

146

Tom Obermaier Interview

147

A Brief History of Software with Tom Shore

148

Kara Master Interview

149

Things to Avoid in Selecting an Executive Job with Dave Kellogg

150

How We Think about People Ops and Culture

151

The Paul Stansik Interview

152

The Case for Outsourced HR

153

CEO Interview with Conrad Clemson of EditShare

154

Do you really need continuous delivery to write production software?

155

Bad Vendor Email Solicitations

156

Rick Noble Interview

157

It's the Jimmy Holloran Interview

158

Discussing Paul Graham's "Makers versus Managers"

159

How to Land a CFO Job

160

The Mad Scotsman Embraces Node.JS (and other surprises)

161

Predictions for 2019

162

The Messy Marketplace Interview

163

2018 Annual Thanksgiving Show

164

Systems Pillar Deep Dive - It's all about sales opportunities

165

ParkerGale's Operations Pillars

166

Interview with Len Finkle, CEO of Profisee

167

The Career Wayback Machine

168

2018 Private Markets Due Diligence Survey

169

Scoping Market Due Diligence with Parthenon/EY - Part II

170

Scoping Market Due Diligence with Parthenon/EY

171

More Stack Overflow with Alan Williamson

172

Stack Overflows 2018 Developer Survey

173

The Evolving Role of the Operating Partner with Jay Bartlett

174

The Fatal Flaw Episode

175

March Madness 2018

176

A Brief History of Computing

177

The Case For 1st Time Funds with PitchBook

178

Macroeconomics and Private Equity

179

Halloween 2017 Special

180

Welcome Cici Zheng

181

How To Teach People Stuff

182

Buyouts from the Sellers' Side

183

What the heck is a Digital Strategy?

184

Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition

185

Summer Reading List

186

Confusing PE Jargon Explained

187

What is a Dividend Recap?

188

How to develop an Investment Thesis

189

Ship of Theseus Episode

190

AE Marketing Group Interview with Kristina Heinze

191

Talent Management 201

192

Customer Analytics 101

193

Makers vs. Menders -- The Corgibytes Interview

194

Jake? Jake's my boy!

195

Talent Management 101

196

Book Club : Thinking Fast and Slow

197

Annual March Madness Episode 2017

198

A Brief Introduction to Information Security

199

How to Interview Good

200

Fundraising Part IV -- Interview with an LP

201

Updated ParkerGale Technology Stack - Basecamp eats Slack

202

We're Hiring!

203

Fundraising Part III

204

Why Due Diligence Fails

205

Fundraising Part II

206

Book Club: "The Most Important Thing"

207

Book Club: "Rumsfeld's Rules"

208

Fundraising: Part 1

209

DDOS -- An infinite number of kids on an infinite number of school busses

210

Talking Tech with a Coding Bootcamp Graduate

211

Social Media Strategies for Middle Market B2B Companies

212

Should you consider hiring graduates from a coding bootcamp

213

Out on the cutting edge with Go!

214

ParkerGale Visits the "Journeys" Podcast

215

Influencer Marketing -- Does it add value for B2B companies?

216

If it isn't broken there's no need to upgrade it

217

A Brief History of Application Programming Interfaces -- and why you need them.

218

A Founder's Guide to Brand Marketing -- It's Not About Advertising

219

How do PE firms differentiate themselves?

220

Slowing Down Sales ... On Purpose!

221

Migrating Legacy Applications with Amazon WorkSpaces

222

Surviving in the Valley of Anguish

223

The Seven Deadly Sins of Private Equity

224

Is Business School Worth It?

225

Don't Make These Mistakes When Implementing NetSuite

226

DevOps for Founders and CEOs

227

Debunking The Failure Mythology

228

Radio Killed the Podcast Star

229

Bootstrapping & Selling Your Software Company

230

Can Unicorns Hurt Buyouts?

231

Board Meetings -- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

232

It's a LOG way to the top if you want to rock'n'roll

233

March Madness 2016 -- Elite Eight

234

Most Common Technology Challenges that we find when we acquire a founder-owned technology company

235

How PE Hires Management Teams

236

Shiny New Toy Syndrome -- And what the Founder can do about it.

237

Everything a CEO Wants to Know About Technical Debt

238

Hey, You, Get Onto My Cloud

239

Exchanging Data 101 -- Email, FTP, SFTP, DropBox, Box, S3 and More!

240

The Myth of the Full Stack Developer

241

Technology Trends for 2016 -- What's Hot and What's Not?

242

Native Mobile Applications vs. HTML5 Apps with the Developertown Crew

243

The Associate Role in Private Equity

244

Working with Portfolio Companies as an Operating Partner

245

Working as an Operating Partner in a Private Equity Group

246

Top Ten Common Mistakes When Implementing Salesforce.com

247

Salesforce.com Part III -- The dreaded implementation plan

248

Implementing Salesforce.com Part II -- Licensing and Implementation Costs

249

The Ruby on Rails Episode with Developertown

250

All Things Salesforce.com With Kamela Arya

251

The Deal Flow Episode

252

A founder-level discussion of the perfect technology stack with Alan Williamson

253

Vertical Scaling vs. Horizontal Scaling for the Non-technical listener

254

ParkerGale's Updated Technology Stack

255

Lessons from Amazon's Culture Clash

256

After the Letter of Intent: Everything that a Founder Needs to Know

257

Dominate a Niche or Build a Better Mousetrap

258

Public Investors vs. Private Investors -- Who is Smarter?

259

More Product Management Fun with Grant Hunter

260

Introduction to Product Management with Grant Hunter

261

Innovator's Dilemma Meets the Blue Ocean

262

Apple's 2015 WWDC Summary

263

A Micro Discussion About Microservices

264

What Private Equity Can Learn From Venture Capital (Episode 61)

265

The role of the outside board member with Glenn Winokur (Episode 60)

266

Our "Should we be Agile" Manifesto Episode (Episode 59)

267

Finding Value in Tech Buyouts.

268

It's time for us to talk about the Apple Watch

269

The Quinn Mathews Interview Episode

270

PE FunCast Final Four 2015

271

March Madness Private Equity Bracketology 2015 Discussion

272

Are Technical Bootcamps Worth the Money?

273

Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose - Part two of our "Drive" discussion

274

ParkerGale's Tech Stack

275

Everything that you need to know about eLearning with Joe Gorup

276

Motivating Management Teams the "Pink" Way

277

We're Not Fooled By Randomness Anymore

278

Crossing the Chasm and the Middle Market

279

NetSuite Implementation Part Deux -- The CFO Interview

280

Our Annual Prediction Show 2015

281

Xmas Eve Spectacular with Chicago Chef John Caputo

282

Our NetSuite "Serial" - Part I

283

TechStars Chicago

284

Thanksgiving 2014 Extravaganza

285

Exit Events for Private Equity Tech Companies

286

The Founder's role in making an entreprenurial organization

287

ParkerGale Capital

288

Founder Transitions. Don't be a Larry!

289

It's our one year anniversary -- and you get the gift!

290

Getting Sideways with Management

291

Private Equity Lingo: The Podcast

292

Nadella's Public Strategy Letter

293

Apple's Swift programming language

294

Building your iOS application

295

Roadside MBA : Hiring your team

296

The Haiku Episode

297

Roadside MBA : Product Differentiation and Price

298

Roadside MBA - Introduction

299

The Mind of the CEO

300

Life and Times of a Private Equity Associate

301

The Must React System

302

The Mid Roll Chat

303

The Art (and Science?) of the LOI

304

Game of Pivots

305

Forty Minutes With The Mad Scotsman

306

Madness Márta

307

Parfait Sundae: Lending to Middle Market Companies

308

Implementing NetSuite

309

A Parade of Terribles: Founder Legal Traps to Avoid

310

Whaaaaaazup Microsoft

311

WSJ's 2014 CIO Conference Review

312

Private Equity's Got Talent!

313

Heuristics in Private Equity

314

Let's get vertical

315

A Very Merry PeFunCast Xmas

316

Curogen's Microsoft Dynamics AX Interview

317

It's a Private Equity Thanksgiving Charlie Brown.

318

We got your due diligence right here!

319

Lessons learned for the Middle Market from the healthcare.gov launch

320

CTO vs VP of Engineering

321

Big in Japan (Data)

322

Punch it, Chewie