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Private Equity FunCast — 326 episodes
Another False Start: PitchBook's H1 2026 Private Equity Data (w/ Steven Buibish)
Introducing "Parker Gals": Meet Cass & Liz
Private Equity's About to Get a Lot Less Private (w/ Kevin Hsu of Lumonic)
PE GUY Meets an Actual PE Guy
Private Equity is Coming For Your 401(k) (w/ PitchBook's Nizar Tarhuni)
Will AI Kill Consulting? (w/ IGS CEO Matt Umscheid)
How Private Equity Is Rethinking AI & Tech Due Diligence (According to Code & Co.)
What's Working NOW At Private Equity Owned Companies
Inside Private Equity's AI-led Transformation (w/ Kyle Roemer of Accordion)
How We Broke Into Private Equity
The Secret Formula to Drive Your Company's Growth
The Right Way to Hire Salespeople
How Operating Partners Create Value in Private Equity
The Evolution of PE Ops
10 Lessons From 10 Years Running Our Own Private Equity Firm
The Private Equity Glossary - 50(ish) Terms You Should Know
The Ghost of Software Future
When And How To Sell Your Company
You Just Bought A Company. Now What?
How Private Equity ACTUALLY Buys Companies
How to Survive Raising Your First Private Equity Fund
How do you start a private equity firm from scratch?
Private Equity Predictions 2026
Software Holdcos in Australia
AI-First (Whatever That Means): Hiring Product & Engineering Leaders with Sean Lucq from SPMB
Modernizing Legacy Systems: The CNX Journey from Green Screens to Great Screens
Marionettes, Metrics, and Medieval French Lit: A Conversation on UX and Life with Leah Reich
Exit-Ready Marketing: Shiv Narayanan on Making Marketing Measurable in PE-Backed Companies
Continuation Vehicles 101 with Houlihan Lokey
Real-Time Inflation Tracking and Forecasting: A Deep Dive into Open Brand's Proprietary Consumer Price Index
From Hype to Impact: Deploying GenAI in Real Businesses with Chris Taylor of Fractional AI
Open Brand's AI-Powered Market Intelligence Revolution
Shock and Nawww : DeepSeek and the Future of LLMs
Predictions and Strategies for 2025
Enhancing Technical Due Diligence with SEMA Software
AI-Powered observability with Jeremy Burton
From Startup to Search Fund: Navigating Entrepreneurship with Phillip Weinstein
Product-Market Fit with Rob Snyder
ARR Lending with PNC
Exit Readiness as a PE-Backed CFO
Understanding the Agile/Agility Ecosystem
How to Avoid Product Pessimism + Build a Better Sales Pitch (With Special Guest April Dunford)
Big Band Software
Getting Real About Value Creation in PE
The View From Europe with Flex Capital
Mastering Business Storytelling: Strategies for Effective Communication in Private Equity
Revolutionizing Investment Strategies: Harnessing Low-Code/No-Code with Jon Kragh
The Incredible i Episode
AI for Investment: A Platform Disruption
10 Lurking Problems for Sellers with Bill Snow
It's Restructuring Time!
Mergers and Acquisitions with Bill Snow
It's the 10 Year Anniversary of the PE Funcast
Generative AI: Implications for PE Investors
PE Partner and the CEO
What is the role of an Operating Partner at a private equity fund?
AlixPartners 8th Annual PE Leadership Survey
What's a Software Company Worth?
More Working with Private Equity from the Portfolio CXO Perspective
Working with Private Equity from the Portfolio CXO Perspective
Technical Due Diligence with Code & Co
Think Like a CTO with Alan Williamson
M&A Rollups with Matt Lynch
Demystifying Executive Coaching
How PE firms use the Jobs-To-Be-Done framework to drive a high-growth product strategy
The Digging In Episode
Defining Your Ideal Customer Profile
Value Creation through Human Capital with David Cohen, Partner at Kelso and Company
What is Human Capital Due Diligence? A lot more than you think.
DevOps with Dave Mangot
They Ask, You Answer with Marcus Sheridan
Lessons Learned from Integrating Companies - and why you need an Integration Management Office (IMO)
The Increasingly Important Role Talent is Playing in Private Equity
Mastering the Basics of B2B Marketing (w/ Special Guest Elias Rubel)
March Madness 2022 -- Final Four
March Madness 2022 - Sweet Sixteen
The Prospecting Debate
Cybersecurity Insurance and Litigation with Peter Halprin
Nailing Your Product Positioning with April Dunford
Everything you wanted to know about data lists -- but were afraid to ask
Community Building In Our Portfolio
Annual 2022 Predictions Show
We're Hiring a Platform Team!
Annual Holiday Episode on the Funcast
The Great Resignation with Tim Schumm, CEO of Lucas James Talent Partners
We're Hiring! Associate Position Overview
A Transformation Story
Purpose and Culture in a Post-COVID World with Amanda Lannert
Building a Better Sales Team
What We've Learned about People Ops and Culture
Canadian entrepreneurship and M&A, a discussion with Pierre Chamberland
Limited Partner Questions You Must Know
Commercial Diligence with Cici Zheng
Dean's Hot Takes
How BluWave Helps PE Shrink the World
Software Buyout Lingo Explained
Selling a Portfolio Company
What Makes a Good Board Member with Jason Heltzer
Talking Shop with Kelly Cornelis from LaSalle Capital
Software Buyouts in Germany
Why NPS is one of the most important metrics we track as a PE firm
The Case for 1st Time CEOs
The Board Perspective of People Operations
CEO Interview - Todd Dauchy from SMA Technologies
WomenHack: Helping Diverse People Get Hired in Tech
What Makes a Good Board Meeting Deck?
Leadership During Periods of Disruption
Training and Enabling Effective Sales Teams with ClozeLoop
Survey Results for March Madness 2021 Best Business Books Brackets
March Madness 2021 Best Business Books Bracket -- Part I
How we think about Hiring
Friends of the Firm Series: Avante Capital with Ivelisse Simon
Career Advice from Chicago Booth Professor Chris McGowan - Part 2
Career Advice from Chicago Booth Professor Chris McGowan - Part 1
Mostly-Annual Predictions Show for 2021
Deal Perspectives: An Associate, a Principal and a Partner Talk Roles and Responsibilities
CXO seeking PE position: How to stand out in a crowded talent market
Halloween 2020
Welcome to ParkerGale Ops, Cass
Why aren't there more women in Private Equity?
Leadership, Culture, and Private Equity with AlixPartners
How We Do Leadership Development
DealCloud at ParkerGale
The Managerial Scouting Report
Debt for PE Buyouts in Times of Uncertainty
The Valley of Anguish
Management Lessons for PE from The Last Dance
Rebroadcast of "Mind of the CEO"
Anatomy of a Security Assessment
Part II : How the world of sports thinks about culture
How the world of sports thinks about culture
March Madness 2020 – Slightly Delayed
Quick Information Security Suggestions for Remote Work
[Replay] A Parade of Terribles: Founder Legal Traps to Avoid
The Second City, "Yes AND," and Private Equity
What is Customer Success? And why should you care about it?
Interview with Dean Brown, CEO of Ipro Tech
Why does the PE firm care about your product roadmap?
How we link Product Strategy to Value Creation
How we think about Value Creation - Risk Mitigation, Cost Reduction and Revenue Growth
Building Effective Teams and Healthy Organizations
2020 Predictions Show
Interview with Stacey Kacek, CEO of OnePlus Systems
When process automation misses the mark
How we use talent reviews, the 9box, and succession planning
You Need Win-Loss Analysis with Cici Zheng
Inside the Deal - Three perspectives on how a deal gets done
Strategies for Technology Transitions
Hiring Technical Leaders for Non-Technical People
Tom Obermaier Interview
A Brief History of Software with Tom Shore
Kara Master Interview
Things to Avoid in Selecting an Executive Job with Dave Kellogg
How We Think about People Ops and Culture
The Paul Stansik Interview
The Case for Outsourced HR
CEO Interview with Conrad Clemson of EditShare
Do you really need continuous delivery to write production software?
Bad Vendor Email Solicitations
Rick Noble Interview
It's the Jimmy Holloran Interview
Discussing Paul Graham's "Makers versus Managers"
How to Land a CFO Job
The Mad Scotsman Embraces Node.JS (and other surprises)
Predictions for 2019
The Messy Marketplace Interview
2018 Annual Thanksgiving Show
Systems Pillar Deep Dive - It's all about sales opportunities
ParkerGale's Operations Pillars
Interview with Len Finkle, CEO of Profisee
The Career Wayback Machine
2018 Private Markets Due Diligence Survey
Scoping Market Due Diligence with Parthenon/EY - Part II
Scoping Market Due Diligence with Parthenon/EY
More Stack Overflow with Alan Williamson
Stack Overflows 2018 Developer Survey
The Evolving Role of the Operating Partner with Jay Bartlett
The Fatal Flaw Episode
March Madness 2018
A Brief History of Computing
The Case For 1st Time Funds with PitchBook
Macroeconomics and Private Equity
Halloween 2017 Special
Welcome Cici Zheng
How To Teach People Stuff
Buyouts from the Sellers' Side
What the heck is a Digital Strategy?
Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition
Summer Reading List
Confusing PE Jargon Explained
What is a Dividend Recap?
How to develop an Investment Thesis
Ship of Theseus Episode
AE Marketing Group Interview with Kristina Heinze
Talent Management 201
Customer Analytics 101
Makers vs. Menders -- The Corgibytes Interview
Jake? Jake's my boy!
Talent Management 101
Book Club : Thinking Fast and Slow
Annual March Madness Episode 2017
A Brief Introduction to Information Security
How to Interview Good
Fundraising Part IV -- Interview with an LP
Updated ParkerGale Technology Stack - Basecamp eats Slack
We're Hiring!
Fundraising Part III
Why Due Diligence Fails
Fundraising Part II
Book Club: "The Most Important Thing"
Book Club: "Rumsfeld's Rules"
Fundraising: Part 1
DDOS -- An infinite number of kids on an infinite number of school busses
Talking Tech with a Coding Bootcamp Graduate
Social Media Strategies for Middle Market B2B Companies
Should you consider hiring graduates from a coding bootcamp
Out on the cutting edge with Go!
ParkerGale Visits the "Journeys" Podcast
Influencer Marketing -- Does it add value for B2B companies?
If it isn't broken there's no need to upgrade it
A Brief History of Application Programming Interfaces -- and why you need them.
A Founder's Guide to Brand Marketing -- It's Not About Advertising
How do PE firms differentiate themselves?
Slowing Down Sales ... On Purpose!
Migrating Legacy Applications with Amazon WorkSpaces
Surviving in the Valley of Anguish
The Seven Deadly Sins of Private Equity
Is Business School Worth It?
Don't Make These Mistakes When Implementing NetSuite
DevOps for Founders and CEOs
Debunking The Failure Mythology
Radio Killed the Podcast Star
Bootstrapping & Selling Your Software Company
Can Unicorns Hurt Buyouts?
Board Meetings -- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
It's a LOG way to the top if you want to rock'n'roll
March Madness 2016 -- Elite Eight
Most Common Technology Challenges that we find when we acquire a founder-owned technology company
How PE Hires Management Teams
Shiny New Toy Syndrome -- And what the Founder can do about it.
Everything a CEO Wants to Know About Technical Debt
Hey, You, Get Onto My Cloud
Exchanging Data 101 -- Email, FTP, SFTP, DropBox, Box, S3 and More!
The Myth of the Full Stack Developer
Technology Trends for 2016 -- What's Hot and What's Not?
Native Mobile Applications vs. HTML5 Apps with the Developertown Crew
The Associate Role in Private Equity
Working with Portfolio Companies as an Operating Partner
Working as an Operating Partner in a Private Equity Group
Top Ten Common Mistakes When Implementing Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com Part III -- The dreaded implementation plan
Implementing Salesforce.com Part II -- Licensing and Implementation Costs
The Ruby on Rails Episode with Developertown
All Things Salesforce.com With Kamela Arya
The Deal Flow Episode
A founder-level discussion of the perfect technology stack with Alan Williamson
Vertical Scaling vs. Horizontal Scaling for the Non-technical listener
ParkerGale's Updated Technology Stack
Lessons from Amazon's Culture Clash
After the Letter of Intent: Everything that a Founder Needs to Know
Dominate a Niche or Build a Better Mousetrap
Public Investors vs. Private Investors -- Who is Smarter?
More Product Management Fun with Grant Hunter
Introduction to Product Management with Grant Hunter
Innovator's Dilemma Meets the Blue Ocean
Apple's 2015 WWDC Summary
A Micro Discussion About Microservices
What Private Equity Can Learn From Venture Capital (Episode 61)
The role of the outside board member with Glenn Winokur (Episode 60)
Our "Should we be Agile" Manifesto Episode (Episode 59)
Finding Value in Tech Buyouts.
It's time for us to talk about the Apple Watch
The Quinn Mathews Interview Episode
PE FunCast Final Four 2015
March Madness Private Equity Bracketology 2015 Discussion
Are Technical Bootcamps Worth the Money?
Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose - Part two of our "Drive" discussion
ParkerGale's Tech Stack
Everything that you need to know about eLearning with Joe Gorup
Motivating Management Teams the "Pink" Way
We're Not Fooled By Randomness Anymore
Crossing the Chasm and the Middle Market
NetSuite Implementation Part Deux -- The CFO Interview
Our Annual Prediction Show 2015
Xmas Eve Spectacular with Chicago Chef John Caputo
Our NetSuite "Serial" - Part I
TechStars Chicago
Thanksgiving 2014 Extravaganza
Exit Events for Private Equity Tech Companies
The Founder's role in making an entreprenurial organization
ParkerGale Capital
Founder Transitions. Don't be a Larry!
It's our one year anniversary -- and you get the gift!
Getting Sideways with Management
Private Equity Lingo: The Podcast
Nadella's Public Strategy Letter
Apple's Swift programming language
Building your iOS application
Roadside MBA : Hiring your team
The Haiku Episode
Roadside MBA : Product Differentiation and Price
Roadside MBA - Introduction
The Mind of the CEO
Life and Times of a Private Equity Associate
The Must React System
The Mid Roll Chat
The Art (and Science?) of the LOI
Game of Pivots
Forty Minutes With The Mad Scotsman
Madness Márta
Parfait Sundae: Lending to Middle Market Companies
Implementing NetSuite
A Parade of Terribles: Founder Legal Traps to Avoid
Whaaaaaazup Microsoft
WSJ's 2014 CIO Conference Review
Private Equity's Got Talent!
Heuristics in Private Equity
Let's get vertical
A Very Merry PeFunCast Xmas
Curogen's Microsoft Dynamics AX Interview
It's a Private Equity Thanksgiving Charlie Brown.
We got your due diligence right here!
Lessons learned for the Middle Market from the healthcare.gov launch
CTO vs VP of Engineering
Big in Japan (Data)
Punch it, Chewie