Vista Equity writes off PluralSight value, after $3.5B buyout

Re:Vista Equity writes off PluralSight value, after $3.5B bu... by rtpg on Saturday June 01, 2024 @04:17AM (#40543859)

Serious question: you have some examples of a company post-PE where you might say "this place still has quality?"

I guess that's a hard pitch in general, given people always complain. But there are some companies in the world whose image has improved over time, so maybe there are some PE companies that have righted the ship and where the brand does not feel like a shell of itself?

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Re:Vista Equity writes off PluralSight value, after $3.5B bu... by mamonster on Saturday June 01, 2024 @02:20PM (#40547918)

The most obvious example I can think of is Steinway. It was not a traditional PE shop buying it(at the time very famous hedge fund bought it for to reorg), but it is still a privately owned company and I've not heard anything bad about the pianos.

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Re:Vista Equity writes off PluralSight value, after $3.5B bu... by achneerov on Sunday June 02, 2024 @09:02AM (#40553761)

Yahoo is an example of this. They were bought out by PE Apollo in 2021 and they consolidated their businesses, such as selling the Japanese arm of their business. I still occasionally use Yahoo finance and it does not seem to have degraded to much and will is what I deem as having quality.

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