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Parker Gals | How I Became a Chief of Staff (w/ Lena Diasti, Ariel Investments)

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Measure Engineering Like You Measure Sales (w/ Dan Bender & Kirby Montgomery, Code & Co.)

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Parker Gals | Trust Over Transactions: The Heart of Private Equity (w/ Nori Welles-Gertz, ParkerGale)

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The Deal Closed. Now What?

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Parker Gals | Building a Med Spa Roll-Up from Scratch (w/ Amanda Blank, Founders Beauty Group)

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11 Years as a PE-Backed CFO: What Sponsors Actually Want (w/ Jon Apter, Accordion)

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Parker Gals | From Advising to Investing: Building a Career in PE (w/ Katie Yuan, Hg Capital)

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Relationships are the Atomic Unit of Deal Flow (w/ Ken Fine, CEO of Affinity)

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Parker Gals | How a College Point Guard Built a PE Career (w/ Brogan Magnarelli, Riverspan Partners)

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Diminishing Returns to Scale in Private Equity (w/ Andrew Akers, PitchBook)

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Parker Gals | Why Private Equity is for Everyone (w/ Jessica Patton, 5th Century Partners)

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Building Your 2027 AI Budget (w/ Justin D'Onofrio, Accordion)

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Parker Gals | Everything's 'Figure-Out-Able': Going All In (w/ Hannah Song, Promus Equity Partners)

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Understanding Management Equity: What PE CEOs Should Know

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What's Wrong in Private Equity (w/ Lee McCabe)

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Parker Gals | The PE Career Path Nobody Plans For (w/ Angela McCoy, May River)

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Can You Still Trust Tech Due Diligence? (w/ Jason Gill & Kirby Montgomery, Code & Co.)

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Parker Gals | Private Equity Isn't Just for "PE Guys" (w/Caroline Carman, Rallyday Partners)

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How PE Firms Are Actually Using AI Right Now (w/ Kate Hopkins, OneGuide)

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Parker Gals |The Career Switcher's Guide to Private Equity (w/ Maggie Pugel, Frontenac)

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Another False Start: PitchBook's H1 2026 Private Equity Data (w/ Steven Buibish)

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Introducing "Parker Gals": Meet Cass & Liz

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Private Equity's About to Get a Lot Less Private (w/ Kevin Hsu of Lumonic)

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PE GUY Meets an Actual PE Guy

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From Sales Rep to $4B GTM Leader: The Playbook for Building Sales Teams (w/ Sam Levy of NetSuite)

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How a Tough PE Market & AI are Changing Exec Search (w/ Nick Cromydas of Hunt Club)

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Financial Modeling Will Never be the Same (w/ Tarun Amasa of Endex)

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

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

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

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What's Working NOW At Private Equity Owned Companies

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

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How We Broke Into Private Equity

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The Secret Formula to Drive Your Company's Growth

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The Right Way to Hire Salespeople

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How Operating Partners Create Value in Private Equity

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The Evolution of PE Ops

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10 Lessons From 10 Years Running Our Own Private Equity Firm

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

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The Ghost of Software Future

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When And How To Sell Your Company

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You Just Bought A Company. Now What?

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How Private Equity ACTUALLY Buys Companies

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How to Survive Raising Your First Private Equity Fund

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How do you start a private equity firm from scratch?

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Private Equity Predictions 2026

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Software Holdcos in Australia

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

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

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

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

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Continuation Vehicles 101 with Houlihan Lokey

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

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

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Open Brand's AI-Powered Market Intelligence Revolution

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Shock and Nawww : DeepSeek and the Future of LLMs

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Predictions and Strategies for 2025

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Enhancing Technical Due Diligence with SEMA Software

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AI-Powered observability with Jeremy Burton

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From Startup to Search Fund: Navigating Entrepreneurship with Phillip Weinstein

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Product-Market Fit with Rob Snyder

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ARR Lending with PNC

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Exit Readiness as a PE-Backed CFO

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Understanding the Agile/Agility Ecosystem

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

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Big Band Software

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Getting Real About Value Creation in PE

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The View From Europe with Flex Capital

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Mastering Business Storytelling: Strategies for Effective Communication in Private Equity

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

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The Incredible i Episode

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AI for Investment: A Platform Disruption

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10 Lurking Problems for Sellers with Bill Snow

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It's Restructuring Time!

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Mergers and Acquisitions with Bill Snow

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It's the 10 Year Anniversary of the PE Funcast

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Generative AI: Implications for PE Investors

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PE Partner and the CEO

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

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AlixPartners 8th Annual PE Leadership Survey

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What's a Software Company Worth?

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More Working with Private Equity from the Portfolio CXO Perspective

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Working with Private Equity from the Portfolio CXO Perspective

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Technical Due Diligence with Code & Co

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Think Like a CTO with Alan Williamson

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M&A Rollups with Matt Lynch

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Demystifying Executive Coaching

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

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The Digging In Episode

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Defining Your Ideal Customer Profile

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

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

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DevOps with Dave Mangot

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They Ask, You Answer with Marcus Sheridan

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

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The Increasingly Important Role Talent is Playing in Private Equity

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

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March Madness 2022 -- Final Four

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March Madness 2022 - Sweet Sixteen

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The Prospecting Debate