Hackernews posts about Private Equity

1. Private equity bought America's essential services (rubbishtalk.com)
   552 points by NoRagrets 25 days ago | 555 comments
2. Race Against Time to Save Brixton Market from Private Equity (novaramedia.com)
   23 points by vincvinc 1 day ago | 3 comments
3. Thoma Bravo hands Medallia to lenders in one of private equity's biggest losses (www.ft.com)
   5 points by petethomas 4 days ago | discuss
4. Private Equity firm loses all its $5B investment in Software Company (www.ft.com)
   2 points by y2244 4 days ago | 1 comments
5. Private Equity Faces Reckoning with Struggle to Clear Buyout Backlog (www.bloomberg.com)
   2 points by petethomas 11 days ago | discuss
6. Pugilistic Florida billionaire plots law firm stake sale to private equity (www.ft.com)
   2 points by petethomas 14 days ago | discuss
7. People Love to Hate This Fake Private Equity Guy (www.nytimes.com)
   2 points by pretext 15 days ago | discuss
8. PrivatePulse – Estimate what your private company equity is worth today (www.privatepulse.online)
   2 points by OscarDK 27 days ago | discuss
9. Private Equity Woos Personal Injury Law Firms (news.bloomberglaw.com)
   1 points by dbcooper 26 days ago | discuss
10. Trillions of dollars spent just to work on customer services?
    8 points by YihaoZhang 3 days ago | 3 comments
11. Show HN: Treeline – beautiful, powerful wilderness topo maps for iOS (apps.apple.com)
    3 points by rafram 9 days ago | discuss
12. Thoma Bravo takes one of the largest PE write downs in history on Medallia (www.privateequitywire.co.uk)
    2 points by horticulturist 2 days ago | discuss
13. Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over (www.nbcnews.com)
    785 points by coloneltcb 9 months ago | 495 comments
14. Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm on a $8.75B valuation (newsroom.intel.com)
    314 points by voxadam about 1 year ago | 234 comments
15. Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade: study (www.brown.edu)
    309 points by hhs 5 months ago | 238 comments
16. A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity (lithub.com)
    252 points by sharkweek 12 months ago | 227 comments
17. Private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs (www.theguardian.com)
    194 points by mordechai9000 3 months ago | 136 comments
18. Private equity snaps up disability services, challenging regulators (www.governing.com)
    182 points by tencentshill 10 months ago | 99 comments
19. Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company (arstechnica.com)
    154 points by waits 3 months ago | 40 comments
20. How private equity is changing housing (www.theatlantic.com)
    117 points by harambae 6 months ago | 306 comments
21. After private equity takes over hospitals, they are less adept of providing care (www.nbcnews.com)
    100 points by speckx almost 2 years ago | 82 comments
22. Private Equity's New Venture: Youth Sports (jacobin.com)
    94 points by wahnfrieden 7 months ago | 80 comments
23. Getting price-gouged by private equity in the UK's happiest resort (2023) (www.netincome.co)
    93 points by jjar almost 2 years ago | 120 comments
24. Private equity is killing private ownership: first it was housing, now it's PCs (old.reddit.com)
    89 points by akyuu 6 months ago | 84 comments
25. Yahoo is selling TechCrunch to private equity firm Regent (techcrunch.com)
    89 points by Garbage about 1 year ago | 28 comments
26. Private Equity Is Coming for America's $12T in Retirement Savings (www.bloomberg.com)
    87 points by mooreds about 1 year ago | 103 comments
27. Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments (www.nytimes.com)
    74 points by 7402 6 months ago | 129 comments
28. Lessons from a Private Equity Earn Out: How I Lost £550K Due to a Lowercase 'C' (www.entrepreneur.com)
    73 points by seasicksteve almost 2 years ago | 43 comments
29. Senate report: How private equity ‘gutted’ dozens of U.S. hospitals (www.washingtonpost.com)
    68 points by diogenes_atx over 1 year ago | 13 comments
30. What happens when private equity buys homes in your neighborhood (www.npr.org)
    63 points by pseudolus 10 months ago | 98 comments
31. Philz Coffee close to closing deal to sell to private equity firm for $145M (missionlocal.org)
    62 points by danso 11 months ago | 81 comments
32. Electronic Arts to be acquired for $52B in largest private equity buyout (www.nbcnews.com)
    61 points by regus 9 months ago | 3 comments
33. Private equity ruins tech companies (blog.zmh.org)
    60 points by achariam over 1 year ago | 47 comments
34. Warn of 'catastrophic consequences' if US gives free hand to private equity (www.ft.com)
    55 points by belter over 1 year ago | 9 comments
35. Doctors Warn Accountants of Private-Equity Drain on Quality: You Could Be Next (www.wsj.com)
    50 points by impish9208 about 1 year ago | 55 comments
36. Private equity firms are snapping up mobile home parks, driving out residents (theconversation.com)
    48 points by PaulHoule 7 months ago | 42 comments
37. Loss for Private Equity, UnitedHealth: Oregon Bans Corporate Control of Doctors (www.thebignewsletter.com)
    46 points by PaulHoule 12 months ago | 5 comments
38. For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity (pluralistic.net)
    39 points by Refreeze5224 7 months ago | 29 comments
39. Private equity is sitting on $5T of existential dread (www.afr.com)
    32 points by zerosizedweasle 8 months ago | 48 comments
40. As private equity invests in child care, Colorado lawmakers seek guardrails (www.denverpost.com)
    28 points by ctoth over 1 year ago | 3 comments
41. Private equity-owned healthcare puts 'profits over patients': Senate report (www.pionline.com)
    26 points by howard941 over 1 year ago | 4 comments
42. Discover private equity affiliations among US dental practices (whoownsmydentists.com)
    25 points by tsoorik 9 months ago | 4 comments