Using numbers to win hearts and minds
The private equity manager who “supported” close to 90,000 jobs worldwide in 2016. The separate private equity manager who “destroyed” an iconic toy retailer in 2017 and left employees with “nothing”. An industry pumping $3trn into the US economy over the past five years. A “predatory” industry “monetising poor people” in the same country.
Anybody venturing into today’s global arena of private equity reputations would be struck by the stark polarisation in discourse.
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