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Re:ThoughtWorks has been sold to private equity by tyingq on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @03:40PM (#15084433)
Ford, EMC, and Microsoft are not what I meant by a typical PE firm...that's who invested in Pivotal.

I meant firms like TPG, Blackstone, Silverlake, etc. I suppose they do sometimes stray from the model, but the rabid cost cutting is pretty typical.

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Re:ThoughtWorks has been sold to private equity by CoffeeDregs on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @06:03PM (#15085615)
My point about Pivotal was not about the investor; it was about the similar investment thesis.

    the rabid cost cutting is pretty typical.
True, if the thesis is around bloat, mal-investment, adventurism, etc. If the theory is something like "tech talent roll-up in the face of an industry-wide cloud migration", then cabid cost-cutting would be disastrous (modulo all of the SG&A position eliminating)...
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