This is a YouTube video titled "Top Private Equity Gurus My Favorite Playbooks & Learnings" containing a discussion between two speakers about influential figures in private equity, including Mark Leonard and Andrew Wilkinson, focusing on their deal-making strategies and reputations. The conversation took place in August 2024.
What, what would be one of your favorite? I'm not going to ask you your favorite, but just so you're not picking favorite, you know, of the PE Giants. But who do you think has, like the most interesting playbook that, you know, you like to kind of learn from the most?
I would say most people in our space will look up to Mark Leonard, Constellation Software. They've done like 500 plus deals. So they're like the originals. They're probably doing it the best. We just got beat out on a couple deals by them recently, which is kind of cool. It's like losing basketball to Michael Jordan or something.
That is cool.
But yeah, that's probably who I look up to the most. Andrew Wilkinson's awesome. He's a little earlier. I think he's like 50 companies now on the other side, those are like the good guys.