Relationships are the Atomic Unit of Deal Flow (w/ Ken Fine, CEO of Affinity)
We built our sourcing model around one goal: know every owner of every software company long before they decide to sell. Ken Fine, Affinity'...
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Private Equity Funcast
The PE Funcast is a weekly show featuring Devin Mathews and Jim Milbery -- partners at ParkerGale Capital. We discuss all things related to privately-owned middle market technology companies...
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Parker Gals: How a College Point Guard Built a PE Career (w/ Brogan Magnarelli, Riverspan Partners)
Cass sits down with Brogan Magnarelli, Principal at Riverspan, to talk about her untraditional path into private equity — from point guard a...
Diminishing Returns to Scale in Private Equity (w/ Andrew Akers, PitchBook)
Devin's mom's only instruction to her financial advisor was "the number should never go down." Downside protection is often the most attract...
Parker Gals: Why Private Equity is for Everyone w/ Jessica Patton, 5th Century Partners
What does it look like to "plant seeds" so aggressively that serendipity starts looking like a strategy? This week on Parker Gals, Cass sits...
Building Your 2027 AI Budget (w/ Justin D'Onofrio, Accordion)
Corporate AI spend in 2026 looked like a teenager loose at the mall with their parents' credit card. No policy, no budget, no discipline abo...
Parker Gals: Hannah Song, Promus Equity Partners
What does it look like to go "all in" at every stage of your career, even when you're not on the traditional track? This week on Parker Gals...
Understanding Management Equity: What PE CEOs Should Know
Paul and Ryan break down what PE-backed executives should know about their management equity: how the economics work, what's worth negotiati...
What's Wrong in Private Equity (w/ Lee McCabe)
What if the future of private equity looks exactly like its past? The days of cheap debt and multiple expansion are over, so the only way to...
Parker Gals: Angela McCoy, May River
Cass sits down with Angela McCoy, Managing Director at May River, a private equity firm investing in lower middle market industrial business...
Can You Still Trust Tech Due Diligence? (w/ Jason Gill & Kirby Montgomery, Code & Co.)
What if the thing founders are proudest of in diligence — "AI wrote most of our code" — is actually the reason investors should worry? Jim s...
Parker Gals: Caroline Carman, Rallyday Partners
In this episode of Parker Gals, Liz Xu sits down with her former JPMorgan colleague and friend Caroline Carman, Senior Associate at Rallyday...
How PE Firms Are Actually Using AI Right Now (w/ Kate Hopkins, OneGuide)
Devin and Cass sit down with Kate Hopkins, founder of OneGuide, to break down the 36 AI value creation plays private equity firms and portfo...
Parker Gals: Maggie Pugel, Frontenac
In this episode, host Cass Ziebel sits down with Frontenac VP Maggie Pugel for a candid conversation about breaking into private equity the...
Another False Start: PitchBook's H1 2026 Private Equity Data (w/ Steven Buibish)
The private equity market in 2026 was supposed to rip. So why has it fallen flat? Devin sits down with Steven Buibish, CFA, Director of US P...
Introducing "Parker Gals": Meet Cass & Liz
Welcome to Parker Gals — the podcast by and for women in private equity. Hosts Cass Ziebel and Liz Xu kick off the very first episode from P...
Private Equity's About to Get a Lot Less Private (w/ Kevin Hsu of Lumonic)
40% of PE firms and 60% of credit funds still track their portfolios on spreadsheets. That's now a way to monitor a few trillion in AUM. Pri...
PE GUY Meets an Actual PE Guy
PE GUY turned a Snapchat filter into millions of views and a seven-figure business. Host Devin Mathews (a real PE guy) conducts due diligenc...
From Sales Rep to $4B GTM Leader: The Playbook for Building Sales Teams (w/ Sam Levy of NetSuite)
Sam Levy's first sales job involved a phone book, a rotary phone, and 200 cold calls for one yes. He was still in college when he started a...
How a Tough PE Market & AI are Changing Exec Search (w/ Nick Cromydas of Hunt Club)
The deep Rolodex model for headhunters doesn't cut it anymore. PE's cookie-cutter hiring scorecards now miss the best candidates in a comple...
Financial Modeling Will Never be the Same (w/ Tarun Amasa of Endex)
In the past year, Excel AI plugins have become increasingly powerful, raising the question: Are Analysts and Associates about to become obso...