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Message: [QUOTE="CIL, post: 5304094, member: 22"] You can’t look at it in a vacuum. Again, PE exists in many forms. Buyout is one form, but again, there are several different goals beyond the party city example you cited. There are many brands that exist today because of private equity. In fact, 90 plus percent of brands you enjoy and consume received private funding in the form of PE or Venture Capital. I can’t think even think of a company that went straight from business formation, loan from a bank, to IPO (public markets). You have to go back to the tech bubble to find those types of companies. [/QUOTE]