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FAANG. Better on the resume, less work and likely more pay.
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I’m in PE portco ops leading M&A. It sucks. Lol. The deal activity is nowhere near what you’d find at larger strategics unless you’re executing on a roll up strategy. You might close one or two deals a year. FAANG has the cash register and are usually very acquisitive so you’ll get great experience and definitely more pay.
This sounds brutal.
what do you value? money? what's the package on appreciate rights/equity from the portco at exit vs FAANG offer?
also what kind of portco is it? a flagship platform that is doing interesting work, a distressed turnaround portco, an POS Audax dumpster fire roll up, or a Vista portco where they gut (they call it the Vista "playbook" LMAO) some portcos so deeply they implode and force their other portcos to clean up the mess by buying their own imploded portcos?
lots of questions here
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FAANG 100% unless if you are like employed directly by PE and is placed into the portco as an operator. You’d most likely get paid more while having better WLB (most PE owned companies are stressed out about pumping out as much cash as possible. That’s just the brutal truth).
Agree^^
Would take FAANG and learn as much as possible and later run a team at PE port co and get rewarded with equity upside. Kinda hard to get to a FAANG from a (small) port co
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Faang IMO, PE portco is very sponsor dependent
PE only if you get equity and if they have a reputation for delivering. You will be golden in PE!!!! You’ll make more $ than working in FAANG for 20 years if you play your cards right
Lol Audax is a an awful sponsor
In current times I wouldn’t sign up for a 2.0x options vesting hurdle on most port co sectors
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