Ep34 “Why Has Private Equity Grown So Much?” with Eric Zinterhofer

What accounts for the recent growth of private firms? In this episode of All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions, hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen welcome Eric Zinterhofer, Founder of Searchlight Capital Partners, to discuss the fundamental tradeoff between Public Equity and Private Equity, and how having a manager with more skin in the game creates greater returns, but at a cost of greater risk.   Submit your questions to the show here: https://bit.ly/AllElseEqual Find All Else Equal on the web: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/business-podcasts/all-else-equal-making-better-decisions All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions Podcast is a production of Stanford Graduate School of Business and is produced by University FM. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.