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PE companies usually do. They will just layoff a bunch of people cut salaries and probably saddle it with debt and get as much cash flow they can from the company.



Layoff the people with know-how, but also hire a bunch of salespeople with lucrative commission plans.


Primarily this. PE firms tend to do a poor job at putting people in charge who know a company's full stack operations, and tend to underpay new non-sales hires which results in a net loss of talent for the company. Do this too often and you become a stagnant company that can't draw in new customers.


...and that's if things go as planned, where the result will be a smoldering mess of mediocrity.




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