Twitter and Why 'You Kids Get Off My Lawn' Is Bad for Private Equity

Private equity may be enjoying a tentative renaissance, but even its most passionate adherents have to admit that the industry has been struggling with an image problem. That's because private equity takes the "private" part all too seriously. While venture capitalists frolic in public and successfully argue that their work is a worldy good, private equity recedes into a faceless, nameless realm of shadowy, out-of-touch, rich old fogies. The industry might as well outfit its practitioners with watch fobs, three-piece suits and cigars. peHUB would like to suggest some image rehab. Let's start with Twitter...

13 May 2010•5 mins read
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