[silverquiet]

I'm assuming IB = investment banking, PE = private equity, VC = venture capital, and PM = public market. To be clear, I did not work for a private equity firm itself (I do not posses the psychopathic ambition required to do so), but for a company that ended up owned by a firm; that was the terrible experience.

[alephnerd]

By PM I meant Product Management. A lot of PMs with MBAs are burned out IB Analysts who did the MBA to escape the grind.

> for a company that ended up owned by a firm; that was the terrible experience.

That's a bit different. Depending on the type of PE, it may have been a PE of last resort.

You only sell to Thoma Bravo if your company is an absolute dumpster fire and has no roadmap forward, so it needs drastic restructuring.

Sucks for line level ICs ofc.

[silverquiet]

It was Apollo, but asking me to differentiate between them would be like the dentist asking me which drill I'd prefer; I really don't know the technical details, but they all seem very unpleasant.

[alephnerd]

PE is a broad industry, as it literally just means allocation of capital in the private market.

For example, VC is a subset of PE.

Apollo, KKR, Guggenheim, and Thoma Bravo are PE funds that have practices dedicated to acquiring non-performing assets (basically companies that are near the verge of collapse)