LearnOutLoud.com Audio - Private Equity Funcast Podcast

Real-Time Inflation Tracking and Forecasting: A Deep Dive into Open Brand’s Proprietary Consumer Price Index (Tue, Apr 01, 2025)
From Hype to Impact: Deploying GenAI in Real Businesses with Chris Taylor of Fractional AI (Tue, Mar 25, 2025)
Open Brand’s AI-Powered Market Intelligence Revolution (Tue, Mar 04, 2025)
Shock and Nawww : DeepSeek and the Future of LLMs (Thu, Jan 30, 2025)
Predictions and Strategies for 2025 (Mon, Jan 13, 2025)
Enhancing Technical Due Diligence with SEMA Software (Thu, Nov 14, 2024)
AI-Powered observability with Jeremy Burton (Wed, Oct 16, 2024)
From Startup to Search Fund: Navigating Entrepreneurship with Phillip Weinstein (Thu, Sep 12, 2024)
Product-Market Fit with Rob Snyder (Thu, Aug 29, 2024)
ARR Lending with PNC (Thu, Aug 15, 2024)
Exit Readiness as a PE-Backed CFO (Mon, Jul 08, 2024)
Understanding the Agile/Agility Ecosystem (Fri, May 24, 2024)
How to Avoid Product Pessimism + Build a Better Sales Pitch (With Special Guest April Dunford) (Thu, May 02, 2024)
Big Band Software (Thu, Apr 18, 2024)
Getting Real About Value Creation in PE (Thu, Apr 04, 2024)
The View From Europe with Flex Capital (Fri, Mar 08, 2024)
Mastering Business Storytelling: Strategies for Effective Communication in Private Equity (Wed, Feb 14, 2024)
Revolutionizing Investment Strategies: Harnessing Low-Code/No-Code with Jon Kragh (Thu, Jan 25, 2024)
The Incredible i Episode (Thu, Jan 18, 2024)
AI for Investment: A Platform Disruption (Mon, Dec 18, 2023)
10 Lurking Problems for Sellers with Bill Snow (Wed, Nov 29, 2023)
It's Restructuring Time! (Tue, Nov 07, 2023)
Mergers and Acquisitions with Bill Snow (Wed, Sep 27, 2023)
It's the 10 Year Anniversary of the PE Funcast (Fri, Sep 15, 2023)
Generative AI: Implications for PE Investors (Thu, Aug 10, 2023)
PE Partner and the CEO (Thu, Jul 13, 2023)
What is the role of an Operating Partner at a private equity fund? (Wed, Jun 14, 2023)
AlixPartners 8th Annual PE Leadership Survey (Fri, May 19, 2023)
What's a Software Company Worth? (Thu, May 04, 2023)
More Working with Private Equity from the Portfolio CXO Perspective (Thu, Apr 20, 2023)
Working with Private Equity from the Portfolio CXO Perspective (Wed, Apr 05, 2023)
Technical Due Diligence with Code & Co (Thu, Mar 23, 2023)
Think Like a CTO with Alan Williamson (Fri, Feb 24, 2023)
M&A Rollups with Matt Lynch (Wed, Jan 25, 2023)
Demystifying Executive Coaching (Wed, Jan 04, 2023)
How PE firms use the Jobs-To-Be-Done framework to drive a high-growth product strategy (Tue, Dec 20, 2022)
The Digging In Episode (Fri, Nov 11, 2022)
Defining Your Ideal Customer Profile (Fri, Sep 02, 2022)
Value Creation through Human Capital with David Cohen, Partner at Kelso and Company (Wed, Aug 17, 2022)
What is Human Capital Due Diligence? A lot more than you think. (Mon, Jul 11, 2022)
DevOps with Dave Mangot (Wed, Jun 22, 2022)
They Ask, You Answer with Marcus Sheridan (Wed, Jun 08, 2022)
Lessons Learned from Integrating Companies - and why you need an Integration Management Office (IMO) (Tue, May 31, 2022)
The Increasingly Important Role Talent is Playing in Private Equity (Wed, May 04, 2022)
Mastering the Basics of B2B Marketing (w/ Special Guest Elias Rubel) (Wed, Apr 13, 2022)
March Madness 2022 -- Final Four (Mon, Apr 04, 2022)
March Madness 2022 - Sweet Sixteen (Mon, Mar 28, 2022)
The Prospecting Debate (Thu, Mar 24, 2022)
Cybersecurity Insurance and Litigation with Peter Halprin (Thu, Mar 10, 2022)
Nailing Your Product Positioning with April Dunford (Thu, Mar 03, 2022)
Everything you wanted to know about data lists -- but were afraid to ask (Thu, Feb 17, 2022)
Community Building In Our Portfolio (Wed, Jan 12, 2022)
Annual 2022 Predictions Show (Wed, Jan 05, 2022)
We're Hiring a Platform Team! (Mon, Dec 27, 2021)
Annual Holiday Episode on the Funcast (Fri, Dec 24, 2021)
The Great Resignation with Tim Schumm, CEO of Lucas James Talent Partners (Fri, Dec 17, 2021)
We're Hiring! Associate Position Overview (Wed, Dec 15, 2021)
A Transformation Story (Fri, Nov 19, 2021)
Purpose and Culture in a Post-COVID World with Amanda Lannert (Wed, Nov 03, 2021)
Building a Better Sales Team (Fri, Oct 29, 2021)
What We’ve Learned about People Ops and Culture (Thu, Oct 21, 2021)
Canadian entrepreneurship and M&A, a discussion with Pierre Chamberland (Thu, Oct 14, 2021)
Limited Partner Questions You Must Know (Wed, Sep 15, 2021)
Commercial Diligence with Cici Zheng (Wed, Sep 08, 2021)
Dean's Hot Takes (Wed, Sep 01, 2021)
How BluWave Helps PE Shrink the World (Wed, Aug 18, 2021)
Software Buyout Lingo Explained (Thu, Aug 05, 2021)
Selling a Portfolio Company (Wed, Jul 21, 2021)
What Makes a Good Board Member with Jason Heltzer (Thu, Jul 15, 2021)
Talking Shop with Kelly Cornelis from LaSalle Capital (Thu, Jul 08, 2021)
Software Buyouts in Germany (Thu, Jun 24, 2021)
Why NPS is one of the most important metrics we track as a PE firm (Thu, Jun 17, 2021)
The Case for 1st Time CEOs (Tue, Jun 08, 2021)
The Board Perspective of People Operations (Wed, May 26, 2021)
CEO Interview - Todd Dauchy from SMA Technologies (Wed, May 19, 2021)
WomenHack: Helping Diverse People Get Hired in Tech (Fri, May 07, 2021)
What Makes a Good Board Meeting Deck? (Wed, Apr 28, 2021)
Leadership During Periods of Disruption (Tue, Apr 20, 2021)
Training and Enabling Effective Sales Teams with ClozeLoop (Wed, Apr 14, 2021)
Survey Results for March Madness 2021 Best Business Books Brackets (Mon, Apr 05, 2021)
March Madness 2021 Best Business Books Bracket -- Part I (Thu, Apr 01, 2021)
How we think about Hiring (Thu, Mar 18, 2021)
Friends of the Firm Series: Avante Capital with Ivelisse Simon (Wed, Mar 10, 2021)
Career Advice from Chicago Booth Professor Chris McGowan - Part 2 (Mon, Feb 22, 2021)
Career Advice from Chicago Booth Professor Chris McGowan - Part 1 (Mon, Feb 08, 2021)
Mostly-Annual Predictions Show for 2021 (Mon, Jan 04, 2021)
Deal Perspectives: An Associate, a Principal and a Partner Talk Roles and Responsibilities (Mon, Dec 07, 2020)
CXO seeking PE position: How to stand out in a crowded talent market (Fri, Nov 20, 2020)
Halloween 2020 (Fri, Oct 30, 2020)
Welcome to ParkerGale Ops, Cass (Wed, Oct 14, 2020)
Why aren’t there more women in Private Equity? (Wed, Sep 23, 2020)
Leadership, Culture, and Private Equity with AlixPartners (Wed, Sep 09, 2020)
How We Do Leadership Development (Fri, Aug 14, 2020)
DealCloud at ParkerGale (Wed, Aug 05, 2020)
The Managerial Scouting Report (Mon, Jul 20, 2020)
Debt for PE Buyouts in Times of Uncertainty (Mon, Jul 06, 2020)
The Valley of Anguish (Mon, Jun 22, 2020)
Management Lessons for PE from The Last Dance (Fri, May 29, 2020)
Rebroadcast of "Mind of the CEO" (Thu, May 07, 2020)
Anatomy of a Security Assessment (Wed, Apr 29, 2020)
Part II : How the world of sports thinks about culture (Wed, Apr 22, 2020)
How the world of sports thinks about culture (Wed, Apr 15, 2020)
March Madness 2020 – Slightly Delayed (Mon, Apr 06, 2020)
Quick Information Security Suggestions for Remote Work (Mon, Mar 30, 2020)
[Replay] A Parade of Terribles: Founder Legal Traps to Avoid (Tue, Mar 17, 2020)
The Second City, “Yes AND,” and Private Equity (Tue, Mar 10, 2020)
What is Customer Success? And why should you care about it? (Tue, Mar 03, 2020)
Interview with Dean Brown, CEO of Ipro Tech (Mon, Feb 24, 2020)
Why does the PE firm care about your product roadmap? (Fri, Feb 14, 2020)
How we link Product Strategy to Value Creation (Wed, Feb 05, 2020)
How we think about Value Creation - Risk Mitigation, Cost Reduction and Revenue Growth (Mon, Jan 27, 2020)
Building Effective Teams and Healthy Organizations (Tue, Jan 14, 2020)
2020 Predictions Show (Tue, Jan 07, 2020)
Interview with Stacey Kacek, CEO of OnePlus Systems (Fri, Dec 13, 2019)
When process automation misses the mark (Tue, Dec 03, 2019)
How we use talent reviews, the 9box, and succession planning (Fri, Nov 22, 2019)
You Need Win-Loss Analysis with Cici Zheng (Fri, Nov 15, 2019)
Inside the Deal - Three perspectives on how a deal gets done (Wed, Nov 06, 2019)
Strategies for Technology Transitions (Wed, Oct 30, 2019)
Hiring Technical Leaders for Non-Technical People (Tue, Oct 15, 2019)
Tom Obermaier Interview (Fri, Sep 27, 2019)
A Brief History of Software with Tom Shore (Fri, Sep 20, 2019)
Kara Master Interview (Fri, Sep 13, 2019)
Things to Avoid in Selecting an Executive Job with Dave Kellogg (Fri, Aug 23, 2019)
How We Think about People Ops and Culture (Thu, Aug 15, 2019)
The Paul Stansik Interview (Tue, Jul 30, 2019)
The Case for Outsourced HR (Tue, Jul 23, 2019)
CEO Interview with Conrad Clemson of EditShare (Thu, Jul 11, 2019)
Do you really need continuous delivery to write production software? (Thu, Jun 27, 2019)
Bad Vendor Email Solicitations (Mon, Jun 17, 2019)
Rick Noble Interview (Tue, Jun 04, 2019)
It's the Jimmy Holloran Interview (Fri, May 10, 2019)
Discussing Paul Graham's "Makers versus Managers" (Fri, Apr 19, 2019)
How to Land a CFO Job (Tue, Mar 26, 2019)
The Mad Scotsman Embraces Node.JS (and other surprises) (Thu, Mar 07, 2019)
Predictions for 2019 (Wed, Jan 09, 2019)
The Messy Marketplace Interview (Thu, Dec 20, 2018)
2018 Annual Thanksgiving Show (Tue, Nov 20, 2018)
Systems Pillar Deep Dive - It's all about sales opportunities (Tue, Nov 13, 2018)
ParkerGale's Operations Pillars (Thu, Sep 27, 2018)
Interview with Len Finkle, CEO of Profisee (Thu, Sep 06, 2018)
The Career Wayback Machine (Tue, Aug 28, 2018)
2018 Private Markets Due Diligence Survey (Thu, Aug 09, 2018)
Scoping Market Due Diligence with Parthenon/EY - Part II (Thu, Jul 26, 2018)
Scoping Market Due Diligence with Parthenon/EY (Thu, Jun 28, 2018)
More Stack Overflow with Alan Williamson (Wed, Jun 06, 2018)
Stack Overflows 2018 Developer Survey (Thu, May 17, 2018)
The Evolving Role of the Operating Partner with Jay Bartlett (Tue, Apr 24, 2018)
The Fatal Flaw Episode (Wed, Apr 11, 2018)
March Madness 2018 (Thu, Mar 29, 2018)
A Brief History of Computing (Mon, Jan 29, 2018)
The Case For 1st Time Funds with PitchBook (Wed, Dec 20, 2017)
Macroeconomics and Private Equity (Mon, Nov 27, 2017)
Halloween 2017 Special (Tue, Oct 31, 2017)
Welcome Cici Zheng (Wed, Oct 25, 2017)
How To Teach People Stuff (Wed, Oct 11, 2017)
Buyouts from the Sellers' Side (Mon, Oct 02, 2017)
What the heck is a Digital Strategy? (Mon, Sep 25, 2017)
Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (Tue, Sep 12, 2017)
Summer Reading List (Wed, Aug 30, 2017)
Confusing PE Jargon Explained (Mon, Aug 21, 2017)
What is a Dividend Recap? (Thu, Aug 10, 2017)
How to develop an Investment Thesis (Mon, Jul 31, 2017)
Ship of Theseus Episode (Tue, Jul 18, 2017)
AE Marketing Group Interview with Kristina Heinze (Tue, Jul 11, 2017)
Talent Management 201 (Fri, Jun 09, 2017)
Customer Analytics 101 (Sun, Jun 04, 2017)
Makers vs. Menders -- The Corgibytes Interview (Fri, May 19, 2017)
Jake? Jake's my boy! (Sun, May 07, 2017)
Talent Management 101 (Fri, Apr 28, 2017)
Book Club : Thinking Fast and Slow (Mon, Apr 17, 2017)
Annual March Madness Episode 2017 (Tue, Apr 11, 2017)
A Brief Introduction to Information Security (Tue, Mar 14, 2017)
How to Interview Good (Mon, Mar 06, 2017)
Fundraising Part IV -- Interview with an LP (Mon, Feb 06, 2017)
Updated ParkerGale Technology Stack - Basecamp eats Slack (Tue, Jan 24, 2017)
We're Hiring! (Tue, Jan 10, 2017)
Fundraising Part III (Tue, Dec 20, 2016)
Why Due Diligence Fails (Wed, Dec 14, 2016)
Fundraising Part II (Fri, Dec 02, 2016)
Book Club: "The Most Important Thing" (Wed, Nov 30, 2016)
Book Club: "Rumsfeld's Rules" (Tue, Nov 22, 2016)
Fundraising: Part 1 (Mon, Nov 07, 2016)
DDOS -- An infinite number of kids on an infinite number of school busses (Wed, Nov 02, 2016)
Talking Tech with a Coding Bootcamp Graduate (Wed, Oct 26, 2016)
Social Media Strategies for Middle Market B2B Companies (Wed, Oct 19, 2016)
Should you consider hiring graduates from a coding bootcamp (Tue, Oct 11, 2016)
Out on the cutting edge with Go! (Mon, Oct 03, 2016)
ParkerGale Visits the "Journeys" Podcast (Mon, Sep 26, 2016)
Influencer Marketing -- Does it add value for B2B companies? (Wed, Sep 21, 2016)
If it isn't broken there's no need to upgrade it (Thu, Sep 15, 2016)
A Brief History of Application Programming Interfaces -- and why you need them. (Tue, Sep 06, 2)(016 +0000 22:17:06, )
A Founder's Guide to Brand Marketing -- It's Not About Advertising (Tue, Aug 23, 2016)
How do PE firms differentiate themselves? (Thu, Aug 11, 2016)
Slowing Down Sales ... On Purpose! (Fri, Aug 05, 2016)
Migrating Legacy Applications with Amazon WorkSpaces (Mon, Aug 01, 2016)
Surviving in the Valley of Anguish (Tue, Jul 26, 2016)
The Seven Deadly Sins of Private Equity (Wed, Jul 13, 2016)
Is Business School Worth It? (Fri, Jun 24, 2016)
Don't Make These Mistakes When Implementing NetSuite (Thu, Jun 16, 2016)
DevOps for Founders and CEOs (Fri, Jun 03, 2016)
Debunking The Failure Mythology (Thu, May 19, 2016)
Radio Killed the Podcast Star (Fri, May 13, 2016)
Bootstrapping & Selling Your Software Company (Tue, May 03, 2016)
Can Unicorns Hurt Buyouts? (Tue, Apr 26, 2016)
Board Meetings -- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Tue, Apr 19, 2016)
It's a LOG way to the top if you want to rock'n'roll (Fri, Apr 15, 2016)
March Madness 2016 -- Elite Eight (Mon, Apr 04, 2016)
Most Common Technology Challenges that we find when we acquire a founder-owned technology company (Thu, Mar 24, 2016)
How PE Hires Management Teams (Fri, Mar 18, 2016)
Shiny New Toy Syndrome -- And what the Founder can do about it. (Fri, Mar 11, 2016)
Everything a CEO Wants to Know About Technical Debt (Fri, Mar 04, 2016)
Hey, You, Get Onto My Cloud (Tue, Feb 23, 2016)
Exchanging Data 101 -- Email, FTP, SFTP, DropBox, Box, S3 and More! (Fri, Feb 12, 2016)
The Myth of the Full Stack Developer (Fri, Jan 29, 2016)
Technology Trends for 2016 -- What's Hot and What's Not? (Thu, Jan 21, 2016)
Native Mobile Applications vs. HTML5 Apps with the Developertown Crew (Thu, Jan 14, 2016)
The Associate Role in Private Equity (Wed, Jan 06, 2016)
Working with Portfolio Companies as an Operating Partner (Wed, Dec 23, 2015)
Working as an Operating Partner in a Private Equity Group (Thu, Dec 10, 2015)
Top Ten Common Mistakes When Implementing Salesforce.com (Mon, Nov 30, 2015)
Salesforce.com Part III -- The dreaded implementation plan (Wed, Nov 18, 2015)
Implementing Salesforce.com Part II -- Licensing and Implementation Costs (Wed, Nov 04, 2015)
The Ruby on Rails Episode with Developertown (Fri, Oct 23, 2015)
All Things Salesforce.com With Kamela Arya (Thu, Oct 15, 2015)
The Deal Flow Episode (Thu, Oct 01, 2015)
A founder-level discussion of the perfect technology stack with Alan Williamson (Thu, Sep 24, 2015)
Vertical Scaling vs. Horizontal Scaling for the Non-technical listener (Fri, Sep 11, 2015)
ParkerGale's Updated Technology Stack (Mon, Aug 31, 2015)
Lessons from Amazon's Culture Clash (Fri, Aug 21, 2015)
After the Letter of Intent: Everything that a Founder Needs to Know (Thu, Aug 13, 2015)
Dominate a Niche or Build a Better Mousetrap (Thu, Aug 06, 2015)
Public Investors vs. Private Investors -- Who is Smarter? (Thu, Jul 30, 2015)
More Product Management Fun with Grant Hunter (Fri, Jul 24, 2015)
Introduction to Product Management with Grant Hunter (Thu, Jul 16, 2015)
Innovator's Dilemma Meets the Blue Ocean (Tue, Jun 30, 2015)
Apple's 2015 WWDC Summary (Mon, Jun 22, 2015)
A Micro Discussion About Microservices (Fri, Jun 12, 2015)
What Private Equity Can Learn From Venture Capital (Episode 61) (Thu, Jun 04, 2015)
The role of the outside board member with Glenn Winokur (Episode 60) (Fri, May 29, 2015)
Our "Should we be Agile" Manifesto Episode (Episode 59) (Fri, May 15, 2015)
Finding Value in Tech Buyouts. (Thu, May 07, 2015)
It's time for us to talk about the Apple Watch (Tue, Apr 28, 2015)
The Quinn Mathews Interview Episode (Thu, Apr 16, 2015)
PE FunCast Final Four 2015 (Fri, Apr 10, 2015)
March Madness Private Equity Bracketology 2015 Discussion (Thu, Apr 02, 2015)
Are Technical Bootcamps Worth the Money? (Fri, Mar 27, 2015)
Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose - Part two of our "Drive" discussion (Mon, Mar 16, 2015)
ParkerGale's Tech Stack (Thu, Mar 05, 2015)
Everything that you need to know about eLearning with Joe Gorup (Fri, Feb 27, 2015)
Motivating Management Teams the "Pink" Way (Fri, Feb 20, 2015)
We're Not Fooled By Randomness Anymore (Fri, Feb 13, 2015)
Crossing the Chasm and the Middle Market (Thu, Feb 05, 2015)
NetSuite Implementation Part Deux -- The CFO Interview (Thu, Jan 29, 2015)
Our Annual Prediction Show 2015 (Wed, Dec 31, 2014)
Xmas Eve Spectacular with Chicago Chef John Caputo (Wed, Dec 24, 2014)
Our NetSuite "Serial" - Part I (Fri, Dec 19, 2014)
TechStars Chicago (Thu, Dec 11, 2014)
Thanksgiving 2014 Extravaganza (Thu, Nov 27, 2014)
Exit Events for Private Equity Tech Companies (Thu, Nov 20, 2014)
The Founder's role in making an entreprenurial organization (Wed, Nov 12, 2014)
ParkerGale Capital (Mon, Oct 20, 2014)
Founder Transitions. Don't be a Larry! (Thu, Oct 02, 2014)
It's our one year anniversary -- and you get the gift! (Wed, Sep 10, 2014)
Getting Sideways with Management (Tue, Sep 02, 2014)
Private Equity Lingo: The Podcast (Wed, Aug 20, 2014)
Nadella's Public Strategy Letter (Wed, Jul 23, 2014)
Apple's Swift programming language (Wed, Jul 09, 2014)
Building your iOS application (Mon, Jun 30, 2014)
Roadside MBA : Hiring your team (Tue, Jun 17, 2014)
The Haiku Episode (Thu, Jun 12, 2014)
Roadside MBA : Product Differentiation and Price (Tue, Jun 10, 2014)
Roadside MBA - Introduction (Tue, Jun 03, 2014)
The Mind of the CEO (Thu, May 29, 2014)
Life and Times of a Private Equity Associate (Sat, May 10, 2014)
The Must React System (Fri, May 09, 2014)
The Mid Roll Chat (Fri, May 02, 2014)
The Art (and Science?) of the LOI (Thu, Apr 24, 2014)
Game of Pivots (Mon, Apr 14, 2014)
Forty Minutes With The Mad Scotsman (Fri, Apr 04, 2014)
Madness Márta (Thu, Mar 27, 2014)
Parfait Sundae: Lending to Middle Market Companies (Mon, Mar 17, 2014)
Implementing NetSuite (Mon, Mar 10, 2014)
A Parade of Terribles: Founder Legal Traps to Avoid (Mon, Mar 03, 2014)
Whaaaaaazup Microsoft (Thu, Feb 27, 2014)
WSJ's 2014 CIO Conference Review (Thu, Feb 20, 2014)
Private Equity's Got Talent! (Mon, Feb 10, 2014)
Heuristics in Private Equity (Mon, Jan 27, 2014)
Let's get vertical (Mon, Jan 20, 2014)
A Very Merry PeFunCast Xmas (Tue, Dec 24, 2013)
Curogen's Microsoft Dynamics AX Interview (Fri, Dec 13, 2013)
It's a Private Equity Thanksgiving Charlie Brown. (Wed, Nov 27, 2013)
We got your due diligence right here! (Tue, Nov 19, 2013)
Lessons learned for the Middle Market from the healthcare.gov launch (Mon, Oct 28, 2013)
CTO vs VP of Engineering (Thu, Oct 10, 2013)
Big in Japan (Data) (Fri, Sep 27, 2013)
Punch it, Chewie (Tue, Sep 10, 2013)