Dry Powder: The Private Equity Podcast

We explore a fresh approach to modeling and managing risk.

In part two of our series, Thoma Bravo’s leading enterprise software investor explains how they continue to find exit opportunities and source new deals.

We ask one of Thoma Bravo’s leading enterprise software investors why 2023 could be a “significantly better” year for deal making.

Private equity firms are developing measures of success that go far beyond carbon footprints.

We ask Bain’s leading macro expert about the “last mile” of rate cuts in the US, and whether Europe has miles to go.

We seem to have entered a period of eerie calm, but will it last? Read Bain & Company’s 2024 Global Private Equity Report here. View my webinar on March 19th here.

In part two of our interview, we explore the principles and strategies that enable the industry’s top-performing GP’s to deliver persistent returns.

A pioneering investor talks to us about challenging the industry’s conventions.

Tom Callahan, CEO of NASDAQ Private Market, argues that today’s liquidity crisis could mark a turning point for secondaries markets.

Nigel Dawn, senior managing director at Evercore, explains how GPs and LPs are discovering new tools and techniques to finance deals.

We asked two of Bain’s leading experts on commercial excellence to take us to the cutting edge of investor relations.

As inflation trends downward, should investors plan for a lower interest rate environment in 2024 — and even the possibility of deflation?

Today on the show, I have a lively conversation with Ashby Monk, the executive director of the Stanford Research Initiative on Long Term Investing. Ashby studies the inner workings of pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and foundations — in short all of those LPs that sit somewhere in between the public and private sectors. “That means that they are optimizing for things that are not entirely evident to just the casual observer,” Ashby says. In this episode of Dry Powder, I ask Ashby to take us inside the $140 trillion universe of long-term investing and help us understand what exactly these organizations are optimizing for. If you'd like to stay up to date with my weekly series on LinkedIn, follow me here.

In part two of our interview series, we explore Vista’s approach to AI and how it connects to the company’s founding story.

We ask Vista’s CEO how he continues to do deals at an astonishing clip, despite the challenging conditions of today’s market. If you'd like to stay up to date with my weekly series on LinkedIn, follow me here.

In part two of our fund-raising series, we’ll dig into the tools, tactics, and technologies that enable general partners to tailor their pitches to key decision makers within institutions.

As competition for capital intensifies, a one-size-fits-all approach to institutional investors will no longer suffice.

We ask the founding team at Greater Share about their intriguing new approach to philanthropic funding and how they’ve already garnered support from some of the world’s leading GPs.

In part two of our macro series, we explore the risks and rewards of public-private partnerships.

We ask Karen Harris, the managing director of Bain’s Macro Trends Group, whether the economy could emerge from this period of rate hikes unscathed. If you'd like to stay up to date with my weekly series on LinkedIn, follow me here.