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LBO King

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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
2 years
Partner: “yes, we will send you the model tonight. It just needs a couple tweaks.” Junior team that knows the current state of the model:
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@valuedassociate
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“Please print the model so I can review”
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“It’s called private equity. Essentially we buy businesses and help them grow by giving them lots of money. It’s a huge misconception that we just fire a bunch of people and cut costs, that only happens in some of our deals. What do you mean your dad got laid off by KKR maybe he
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@valuedassociate
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Sorry, we will not be submitting a bid on this opportunity. Unfortunately the management team only has 450 years of combined experience, our investment criteria specifies that at least 500 years are required for us to consider the deal. Best,
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
2 years
Junior Analyst showed up at 1pm today with no notice. Annoying, but kind of a power move tbh
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
2 years
Investment bankers crafting a comprehensive 80 page CIM just to have me ask “So can you walk me through what this company does?” on the intro call
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
2 years
When the intern updates the model correctly without breaking it or asking questions
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2 years
“Our financials are attached here, I know you asked for them in Excel but we can’t really do that with our computer system and every month is in a separate PDF, by the way when can we see drafts of employment agreements that should be priority 1 right…”
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
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MD when someone suggests not ordering $300 bottles of wine at the board dinner (we are in violation of covenants)
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@valuedassociate
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When the company is in a stable market, 15%+ EBITDA margins, good CEO, has “Midwestern culture”, and <20% customer concentration
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
3 years
MD this morning after making me work until 3am last night: “morning late riser!” Stop bro I’m battling demons rn
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
2 years
Getting a gf is the move fellas. Used to exclusively wear old hs clothes for lounging around, now it’s Lulu only
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
2 years
WE ARE NOT LIKE OTHER PE BUYERS, WE SPECIALIZE IN PARTNERING WITH FOUNDERS AND MANAGEMENT TEAMS TO CREATE EQUITY VALUE THROUGH A TEAM APPROACH AND HAVE A PROVEN TRACK RECORD OF SUCCESS WHICH INCLUDES A 35% IRR AND WOULD RECOMMEND YOU SPEAK TO ANY PRIOR CEO REFERENCES
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
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Gn
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How I think I look redlining an NDA’s term from “three (3)” to “two (2)” years from the date hereof
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
1 year
Holy shit you mean that there are untapped growth opportunities at the business through BOTH new customer acquisition AND increasing wallet share at existing customers?! Why haven’t people thought of that before??
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@valuedassociate
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@valuedassociate
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“And now we’d like to open up the floor for questions from the IC for the deal team….”
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
1 year
Why yes, Mr. Managing Director there is nothing I would love more than to call 15 different restaurants to find one to host our board dinner
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
3 years
Me after completely gutting an NDA that some paralegal spent 10 hours on
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“So this is where you make the product?”
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Pitching an LOI to IC soon, and leading with the fact that the management team has over 500 years of combined experience. Easy approval
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Being CC’d on the back and forth arguments over email between chill MD and crazy MD
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Limited partners when they hear that there’s a 24 year old board observer on the PortCo
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Me when I had my first MP
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Circle of life
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@valuedassociate
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3 years
Let’s just grab the low hanging fruit and not recreate the wheel while coming together and breaking bread with a come to Jesus moment so that we don’t end up spinning our wheels trying to boil the ocean so that we can all sing kumbaya
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PE Degenerate
2 years
Gen Z intern to me over Teams: “font looks clean. Might have to start using that frfr 💯”
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PE Degenerate
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Leading a meeting that you’re also responsible for taking the notes on
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
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@itsmarkmoran Hope she sees this bro ❤️
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PE Degenerate
2 years
Talking to the CFO of the fund’s distressed PortCo
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PE Degenerate
1 year
“I just sold $200,000 of life insurance to my aunt who doesn’t need it LFG” energy
@barstoolsports
Barstool Sports
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Kids who grew up on Wolf of Wall Street have arrived in corporate America @BarstoolFinance
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
3 years
Tradition
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When the deal everyone hates is finally dead
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Nothing like eating overpriced Chinese food in an airport with your MD while awkwardly trying to make small talk with each other
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
2 years
Other Delta flyers have no idea how much equity value I’m about to generate on this flight
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
2 years
Investment bankers that don’t still cite COVID tailwinds as the reason for declining numbers… wya?
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
2 years
If I had a dollar for every time a lender asked “how well did this business do during the recession” I’d have enough money to fund the damn deal myself
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PE Degenerate
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“I need you to update the model with the QoE numbers asap”
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
2 years
In NYC for the first time ever… first impression: dirty
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3 years
Iykyk
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
2 years
Gonna start saying EBIT - DEE AY just to piss people off
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
2 years
CIM draft been in the MD’s hands for 2 weeks, comments come in the day before the artificial deadline they set, rinse, repeat
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Me jumping in for my MD on lender calls when they ask for anything involving numbers
@Enezator
Enez Özen
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School bus driver suffers heart attack and 13-year-old gets behind the wheel and saves all children's lives
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@business “Sir, it appears that there are also multiple ‘tranches’ of debt used to finance these deals”
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1 year
Downside scenarios 💉📈💸
@WallStreetOasis
Wall Street Oasis
1 year
Which of the following is not a step in LBO modeling?
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
2 years
I wanna know what jobs people are able to “quiet quit” at I get hounded if I’m 2 minutes late to a single meeting
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PE Degenerate
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Can Biden forgive all senior secured debt as well?
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@valuedassociate
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Funniest instance of this is a banker telling us he had never seen such a detailed level of IT diligence required in his 40 years of doing deals. My brother in Christ when you were an analyst people were sending CIMs by mail
@Bradwick11
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@litcapital My favorite line in financial services: “I have been in the industry for X amount of years” when trying to get their point across 💀💀💀
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
2 years
This is called “leverage”. Read below to learn more about debt and equity and how private equity firms utilize BOTH to acquire businesses 👇 THREAD (1/287)
@HighyieldHarry
High Yield Harry
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Unpopular opinion: Even if you have enough cash to acquire a company without a loan, you’ll still want to take a loan to acquire a business.
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
2 years
Men used to go to war, now they send emails with exclamation points
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PE Degenerate
2 years
If my laptop is ever lost or destroyed the biggest loss would be login information to like 75 different data room providers
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
1 year
Nobody’s buying it
@IBjunioranalyst
Off-Cycle IB Intern, SIE
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My associate and I defending our hockey stick growth projections for a 100+ y/o Midwestern manufacturing co. that has been stagnant for decades:
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PE Degenerate
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@ExcelHumor It’s 2023, time to start memorizing RGB codes bro
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PE Degenerate
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@vigtheapp “Babe let me take a picture of you behind my laptop real quick… babe please it’s funny”
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PE Degenerate
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@IBjunioranalyst It’s exactly how this works
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Someone is clearly upset that they can’t use Excel without a mouse
@ExcelHumor
memes.xlsx
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@LBOVinny Holy shit dude and the management team has 200 years of combined experience this is a world class company
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@HighyieldHarry Getting the strong urge to go eat my neighbors cat after watching this, thanks
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
1 year
Dog put me in
@rob_b1991
rob
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ESPN 8 The Ocho (ESPN2) is showing a Microsoft Excel World Championship at 7am if anyone is interested
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@snowmanllc Wrong + ratio + no bitches
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PE Degenerate
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Holy shit, this is big
@business
Bloomberg
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Private equity firms typically buy companies with a combination of equity and debt
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
3 years
Biggest lie I’ve ever told: MD: “are you tracking?” Me : “yes I got it, totally understood”
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PE Degenerate
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*gets call from MD* “Can you come to my office?” *walks to office* MD: “Ok I have an Excel question but I’m embarrassed that I don’t know this, why is my IRR formula not working?” Me: *fixes formula* MD: “Ok thanks, don’t tell anyone about this”
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
3 years
Sometimes it’s better to be safe than sorry tho
@cashpoorcapital
Cash Poor Capital
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The CDC has reduced all diligence periods to a maximum of 30 days
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PE Degenerate
2 years
@ExcelHumor Edge slept on tbh
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PE Degenerate
2 years
Some days I feel bad for ruining the lives of our lawyers who may just want to spend some time with their families after work. Today isn’t one of those days, I need that APA revision ASAP
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
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Success
@SteveOnSpeed
Steve · Millionaire Habits
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Using ONE WORD, what makes some people more successful than other people?
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PE Degenerate
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My MD starts calls this way
@boutique_banker
The boutique banker
1 year
Client call just ended with my MD asking “Does anybody have any jokes?”
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Me heading straight to the sky club on any layover and expensing it to my PortCo
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
2 years
Did you mean finánce
@ExcelHumor
memes.xlsx
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accounting and finance
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Deal team leaner than Chet Holmgren
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PE Degenerate
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God I’m such a good delegator
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When our lawyers think I’ve “reviewed the documents” before our call
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
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Just finished creating equity value for today can’t wait for tomorrow 🙏
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
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Lenders when you tell them to stop asking for useless information
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Lawyers when you send an email yourself instead of letting them bill you $5000 to do it
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PE Degenerate
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Willing to bid $10,000 on a ring (10x multiple of ~1,000 days dating), with a $5,000 performance-based earnout paid over 5 years assessed on number of children birthed. Employment agreement included
@the_P_God
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Taking the PE approach to engagement, sending her an LOI
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@valuedassociate
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Is there something about being a finance bro that makes you like La Croix because I used to hate this stuff and now I drink it every day
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@boutique_banker Pre-IOI is just the boys playing nice
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PE Degenerate
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I’m throwing up
@coldhealing
cold 🥑
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PE Degenerate
2 years
Nancy Pelosi, and keep the other $3
@HighyieldHarry
High Yield Harry
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Let’s hear it - who makes your IC?
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@valuedassociate
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2 years
Props to accountants, don’t know how you stay awake during tax dilly calls
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2 years
What if we kissed under the balance sheet bridge
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@valuedassociate
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3 years
Life changing mix
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
2 years
@ExcelHumor Ctrl + Alt + V + down arrow x3
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
4 months
Decided to throw on Jimmy Fallon in the background while getting some work done - do people actually unironically listen to this garbage??
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
1 year
Lmao ridiculous, go back to work
@WallStreetSilv
Wall Street Silver
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BREAKING: 🚨🚨🚨 what do you think of their wage demands? Start of a strike among the three major automobile manufacturers (Ford, GM, Stellantis) in the United States. The UAW union, which brings together 150,000 members, is demanding a 40% salary increase, similar to those
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
3 years
Banker getting real pissy over one redline in the NDA. Just relax bro, all we want to do is completely remove all responsibility on our end
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
2 years
Me grinding a CIM on my Delta flight while listening to music about the actual struggles of gang life
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
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Thanks for reaching out - we’re definitely interested in taking a closer look. Feel free to shoot over an NDA and we’ll look forward to reviewing the CIM. Best,
@espn
ESPN
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The Commanders released a statement that owners Dan and Tanya Snyder have hired Bank of America Securities to consider "potential transactions" involving the franchise. It is unclear if this means they are exploring a sale of the franchise or are seeking a minority owner.
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PE Degenerate
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@BoutiqueBurnout Sorry forgot to include those lol see revised attached here
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
2 years
The fifth one 🥵😩
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@valuedassociate
PE Degenerate
3 years
Lmfao
@BustedAuction
Busted_Auction
3 years
Finance bros (and lady bros)
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