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A sharp critique of private equity and venture capital's role in creating a valuation crisis in the tech/SaaS industry. The piece argues that PE firms bought into SaaS companies using leveraged buyouts based on the assumption of perpetual growth, which collapsed after 2021. Now over 16,000 PE-backed companies are stuck unsold,
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The Intelligence Crisis In Private Investing and Private EquityHow Private Equity Created A Pump-And-Dump Crisis In Software By Assuming Everything Would Grow Forever — And Everything Broke In 2021Private Equity And Venture Capital Have Driven A Valuation Crisis In The Tech Industry Based on Hype and Ignorance — And AI May Be Their ReckoningSort: