Best But Never Final: Private Equity's Pursuit of Excellence
Doug McCormick, Lloyd Metz, Sean Mooney
41 episodes
3 weeks ago
In this continuation of their conversation on portfolio performance, co-hosts Lloyd Metz (ICV Partners), Doug McCormick (HCI Equity Partners), and Sean Mooney (BluWave) move from diagnosis to action: what to actually do once you know a business isn’t performing to plan. They cover how to tell a temporary headwind from a structural problem, where to start on revenue and cost fixes, and how to balance quick liquidity levers with long-term value creation. From pricing strategy and marketin...
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In this continuation of their conversation on portfolio performance, co-hosts Lloyd Metz (ICV Partners), Doug McCormick (HCI Equity Partners), and Sean Mooney (BluWave) move from diagnosis to action: what to actually do once you know a business isn’t performing to plan. They cover how to tell a temporary headwind from a structural problem, where to start on revenue and cost fixes, and how to balance quick liquidity levers with long-term value creation. From pricing strategy and marketin...
Scaling Smarter: How Bluesight and Thoma Bravo Turned Vision Into Value
Best But Never Final: Private Equity's Pursuit of Excellence
48 minutes
7 months ago
Scaling Smarter: How Bluesight and Thoma Bravo Turned Vision Into Value
In this episode, Sean Mooney, Doug McCormick, and Lloyd Metz are joined by Carl Press of Thoma Bravo and Kevin MacDonald, CEO of Bluesight, to share a behind-the-scenes look at scaling a software company from a bootstrap startup to a private equity-backed category leader. Kevin reflects on his fourteen-year journey, from self-funding and navigating tough markets to leveraging venture capital and eventually partnering with private equity to drive growth and achieve ambitious goals. Carl provid...
Best But Never Final: Private Equity's Pursuit of Excellence
In this continuation of their conversation on portfolio performance, co-hosts Lloyd Metz (ICV Partners), Doug McCormick (HCI Equity Partners), and Sean Mooney (BluWave) move from diagnosis to action: what to actually do once you know a business isn’t performing to plan. They cover how to tell a temporary headwind from a structural problem, where to start on revenue and cost fixes, and how to balance quick liquidity levers with long-term value creation. From pricing strategy and marketin...
