My issue with most PE deals is that the PE firm doesn’t have enough skin in the deal. Look at, say, the EA deal where almost all of the purchase price is coming from debt on EA. This to me is wrong because the new owners have almost no incentive to build the business for the long term—EA is a strong operator but face layoffs and LOB closures just to service the new debt.
I remember the ‘90s fondly in this regard. 1000 pages issue of Computer Shopper, the early days of Wired, and so much variety of publications. But especially because after work I wrote dozens of articles for Software Development Magazine and even judged the Jolt Awards a few years.
Act-On Software | Sr Frontend Developer | REMOTE or Portland, OR | Full-time
We build marketing automation software for SMBs. This position is on the team responsible for driving UI development using React, Typescript, PostCSS, Cypress, and React Testing Library/Jest. Our internal component library is mostly built on top of Radix UI, with React Table underlying the tables.
Our corporate culture focuses on empowering staff to be creative in how to deliver the desired product and having a good work/life balance. For instance, for the former I brought in both Radix UI and React Table and for the latter, well, I kept my job after moving to Hawaii (which is a state with some tricky requirements when you have employees residing there).