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How to Sell a Business in 2023

Permanent Podcast: Real Talk About Private Equity and Buying, Selling, and Operating Small Businesses

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Why We Don't Use the Leverage in Our Deals in Q4?

Our values haven't changed because we don't use the leverage. We're only using our own fund capital. The cost of that capital has been consistent to Emily's point every year. And as an owner, operator, seller of this business, why do I care how you got your money? So Q4 was a perfect illustration of this. A lot of deals were broken in the fourth quarter. What ended up happening mostly was that banks pulled back and said, we will not lend.

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