Private Equity: Overvalued and Overrated?
19 min readJun 6, 2018
By Daniel Rasmussen
America is in the grips of a speculative frenzy. Investment bankers, private investment firms, and even a few dozen recently graduated MBAs labelling themselves “searchers” are calling, emailing, wining, and dining small business owners. Their goal is to translate prosaic small businesses into the poetry of private equity.