Brendan Ballou is a federal prosecutor and served as Special Counsel for Private Equity in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division. Previously, he worked in private practice, and before that, in the National Security Division of the Justice Department, where he advised the White House on counterterrorism and other policies. He graduated from Columbia University and Stanford Law School.
His book, Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America, is available now.
00:00 Intro
01:11 How did you get into examining Private Equity?
02:17 The PE Playbook
04:12 Differences in PE firms
06:46 What should entrepreneur ask?
09:52 Comparing to other industries
11:30 What should customers of PE companies do?
13:47 What criteria make sense?
16:26 What should citizen entreprenuers do?
18:24 What financial incentive would change this dynamic?
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