Private Equity FunCast

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 about what was purchased and why.

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, Liz and Cass sit down with

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 negotiating, and how you can use it to

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 win going forward is to opera

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 businesses. Angela shares her journey

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 sits down with Jason Gill and

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 Partners, a lower middle mark

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 portfolio companies are running righ

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 non-traditional way. Maggie sh

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 Private Equity Research at Pi

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 ParkerGale HQ in Chicago, intro

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. Private equity (and credit) are a

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 diligence on Johnny Hilbrant Partridge

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 telemarketing gig with no play

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 complex world. And more and more fun

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 obsolete, or are we entering the a

Private Equity is Coming For Your 401(k) (w/ PitchBook's Nizar Tarhuni)

Your 401(k) is about to get access to private equity, but how, in what form, and at what price are all still TBD. Which is kind of a problem for such a big change. The pi

Will AI Kill Consulting? (w/ IGS CEO Matt Umscheid)

AI is reshaping the consulting industry faster than the internet or remote work ever did. Some say the industry's days are numbered. So why are Anthropic and OpenAI build

How Private Equity Is Rethinking AI & Tech Due Diligence (According to Code & Co.)

Artificial intelligence is changing the rules of software investing, forcing private equity firms to adapt quickly and carefully. In this episode, we're joined by the tea

What's Working NOW At Private Equity Owned Companies

It's hard to execute today. Growth has slowed, and costs are up. If you own, advise, or operate a PE-backed company, this episode offers a behind the scenes look at some