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Bill D'Alessandro: The Hard Thing(s) About HoldCos - Outside Insights

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

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The Highs and Lows of the De-Holdco Process

Brent: I'm going to about describe was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Business wise and emotionally, we were growing natural dog companies so fast, too fast. We got all the brands sold in kind of Q three of last year, the last remaining brands. And we sold them on a contribution margin basis which essentially meant that I had to fire the folks rather than the acquireer firing the folks. It was very, very harrowing. At one point, we actually needed a small amount of bridge capital to not screw it up because actually I did screw it up. This is dichotomy that both of you have been touching on in this conversation between moving slow and moving fast

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