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Balancing act: The growing importance of delivering both financial returns and measurable social and environmental outcomes

Private Equity Wire

At the venture stage, we conduct a much more in-depth evaluation of companies compared to larger businesses reaching the private equity or public company stage. For example, it’s not uncommon for us to meet every single employee of a company! designation.

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Transcript: Steve Case

The Big Picture

So it was a rapid pace of learning a lot in terms of being a public company growing so rapidly. And it allowed things like crowdfunding had created an on-ramp for young companies to go public who were called “emerging growth companies,” that has fueled more IPOs.