[thatnerd]

This article is too strong on vibes and lacks data beyond "there's a lot more money in private equity than there used to be."

Also, private equity includes a broad range of investors, from angels that fund unlikely-to-ever-be-profitable startups to leveraged buyout firms that take large companies private because they think they can do better than current management, to vulture funds that snap up bankrupt companies.

I'm not even clear what the author is talking about here.

[richrichie]

It's hard to get reliable data in this space. PE funds also sell to each other and mark profits on both sides of transaction. Hard to unravel.