Table of Contents
A Visual Tour of Private Equity xi
Deciphering Private Equity xv
Prologue xix
Chapter 1 Find the Money 1
Chapter 2 All the Money in the World 19
Chapter 3 The L Word 43
Chapter 4 “When Was the Last Time You Bought a Toilet Seat?” 55
Chapter 5 Modern Art 73
Chapter 6 Put on Your Boots 95
Chapter 7 Aura of Cool 111
Chapter 8 Hundreds and Billions 123
Chapter 9 Take This Exit 141
Chapter 10 The Taxman Cometh 155
Chapter 11 It’s a Steve, Steve, Steve World 165
Chapter 12 Not-So-Private Equity 187
Afterword 199
Notes 203
Acknowledgments 211
About the Author 215
Index 217