
How Private Equity ACTUALLY Buys Companies
It all starts with an acquisition, but most people don't understand how private equity firms actually find and buy companies. Devin sits down with Ryan Milligan to break down the mechanics of deal sou...
18 Mars 1h 23min

How to Survive Raising Your First Private Equity Fund
Raising your first private equity fund is humbling. Like Lloyd Dobler holding a boombox outside an LP's window, you need to be committed and creative. It took us over 150 meetings and almost 2 years t...
11 Mars 1h 17min

How do you start a private equity firm from scratch?
In this episode, Devin and Jim rewind to 2014 — and a $12 bottle of Cabernet at the Macaroni Grill — where they hatched the plan to leave their firm and build a new private equity firm from nothing. T...
4 Mars 1h 13min

Private Equity Predictions 2026
It's our annual Predictions episode (and by annual, we mean just the years we remember to record one). Devin and Jim offer their hot takes on fundraising, liquidity, why artificial general intelligenc...
25 Feb 49min

Software Holdcos in Australia
Devin sits down with Funcast listener and Terem Capital CEO Scott Middleton. Terem is a software holdco in Australia, and Scott shares his strategy, investment criteria, sourcing approach, and the dif...
16 Jan 56min

AI-First (Whatever That Means): Hiring Product & Engineering Leaders with Sean Lucq from SPMB
Jim sits down with Sean Lucq (Partner at SPMB Executive Search) to talk about the art of hiring senior engineering and product leaders—especially now that every job description on Earth has "AI" duct-...
12 Dec 202557min

Modernizing Legacy Systems: The CNX Journey from Green Screens to Great Screens
In this episode of The Private Equity Funcast, Jim Milbery sits down with Jennifer Nelson (CEO of Izzy Software), Richard Malone, Rob Swanson (co-founders of CNX Corporation), and Iwona Montgomery to ...
29 Okt 202553min

Marionettes, Metrics, and Medieval French Lit: A Conversation on UX and Life with Leah Reich
Jim and Leah dive headfirst into a whirlwind chat that covers everything from the fine distinctions between puppets and marionettes to the equally delicate art of building great user experiences. Leah...
30 Sep 20251h 56min



















