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by frakr 3587 days ago
They own for-profit education companies like University of Phoenix. Read up on their history, especially the law suits, to get an idea of what the management's values are like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Phoenix
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That's actually a different firm called Apollo Group (which is mostly comprised of Phoenix and a small number of other things) – Apollo Global is a much larger private equity firm with a confusingly similar name
It appears that Apollo Global is part of a consortium that bought Apollo Education Group earlier this year [1]. Looking at the press releases, those appear to be the two Apollos in question. Though, I suppose you should give them some time to see what they'll do with it.

[1] http://www.streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/Apollo+Global+to...

"management's values" are probably "make money" even for the turnaround PR firms.

The real question is of "strategy", not "values", in the financial industry.

Anyone have a tl;dr for Apollo on that?

Ugh, those guys.

So... this is not good news for the customers of Rackspace.

Whoa, you're username, nice. Anyway, Apollo Global is different from Apollo Group.