This content was created by Eric Siu. This content was uploaded by Eric Siu. This is a YouTube video titled "Should You Sell Your Company to Private Equity?" (created 2025-08-18) featuring Eric Siu speaking about why he would not sell his company to private equity. He argues he’s not chasing liquidity, values autonomy and the fun of running his business, and criticizes the typical PE playbook (platform roll-ups, leverage, cost cuts and enforcing their way of running companies).
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Should you sell your company to private equity? I don't think it's worth it, at least for me, to sell my company to private equity. Obviously there's a price for everything, right? But I don't necessarily, I'm not chasing the liquidity or anything like that. That's one piece, right? But the second piece is they have a formula that works for them. It's like, okay, we're gonna have a platform company, we're gonna take on debt, we're gonna take on a few turns, we're gonna lever up, right? And we're gonna buy some other companies and then hopefully there's a larger multiple. And then their game is like, okay, well we know what works for this. Okay, you're gonna have to cut over here. You're gonna have to run things our way. I don't do well with somebody telling me what to do, right? And so I'm not gonna have fun anymore and then We do this partly, obviously, to add value to the world and also to make money too. But we do it because it's really fun, right? And so I wouldn't like— if I don't necessarily need or want the liquidity right now and I like what I do, then why do I need to change how I'm doing things in that respect?
