The Private Equity Playbook: Instant Pot

About this episode

This episode explores how Instant Pot became a casualty of private equity's financial strategies.

Instant Pot didn’t just go bankrupt, it became another casualty of private equity’s complex financial maneuvers. In this episode of our series The Private Equity Playbook, host Manpreet Kaur Kalra and collaborator Anna Canning trace how one of the most beloved kitchen gadgets of the 2010s became a textbook case of everything private equity does to the things we own, the places we live, and the communities we call home.

People in this episode

Host: Manpreet Kaur Kalra

Topics covered

• private equity
• bankruptcy
• financial maneuvers
• kitchen gadgets
• consumer products
• business impact

Keywords

• Instant Pot
• private equity
• bankruptcy
• financial maneuvers
• kitchen gadgets
• business impact

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: private equity

Products: Instant Pot

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