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PE as a profession: requires full ownership of target company (more hostile than VC), more mature (read: less sexy) companies, much bigger funds and ticket sizes, heavy use of debt and cutting costs to make target companies more efficient. 99% chance you're not getting in unless you were in IB or did DDs for PE clients as a consultant.
PE as an individual: way more money than VC, way more hours, way more modeling, less sexy industries focused on existing cash cows and not new trends.
VC as a profession: much more of an art than a science, usually enter into minority ownership of portcos, early stage to growth (~AirBnb) companies, smaller funds, teams and ticket sizes, all equity and sometimes convertible notes in risky situations, and focus is on growth and reaching next stage of financing. Much more cooperative than PE. Way more sexy than PE.
VC as an individual: good lifestyle, interesting diversity in that you have to constantly meet entrepreneurs and keep upto date on trends, less money than PE, less modeling, more open to non-bankers.
By no means exhaustive, and caveat that it may sound slightly biased towards VC because I'm moving into it.
PE and VC are really different asset classes, in the way they are discussed by people in the industry. But I will say this, both sides think the other has it better or worse depending on their mood, but in the end if you want to make money managing money, the right answer is always manage a lot f'ing of money, to quote one of my PE friends. PE has more money under management per partner....
Also VC is infinitely higher risk with a much higher expectation of return than PE.
Are you more into numbers and concepts or people and faces?
VC is more people and faces ? I assume
VC is a subset of PE
VC is boss
PE - I want to stay east coast