Brent Beshore (@BrentBeshore), founder and CEO of Adventur.es, joins Erik on this episode.

They discuss:

• What makes Adventur.es “the inverse of traditional private equity,” including why they don’t add debt to a company’s balance sheet when they purchase a company and intend to keep the existing leadership around.

• What Silicon Valley doesn’t get about private equity, how it’s different from venture, and how VC and PE might interact in the future.

• Some of the industries that Brent thinks are overlooked and the breakdown of some of their past investments.

• The book he wrote, The Messy Marketplace, and the lessons it holds for business owners.

• The state of the macro environment and how they think about it at Adventur.es.

• How they evaluate potential investments and business partners, and his strategies for evaluating people in general.

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