About this episode

Chris Rolls discusses his journey in private equity and the advantages of permanent capital over traditional models.

Chris Rolls is the founder of PieLAB Capital, a holding company with nine portfolio companies built through 13 acquisitions. After building and selling multiple businesses, Chris entered private equity to learn the investing side of the game. But he eventually became convinced that the traditional PE model forces investors to sell their best businesses too early. That realization led him to build a permanent capital holding company inspired by Berkshire Hathaway, Constellation Software, Tran...

People in this episode

Host: PrivateEquityGuy

Guest: Chris Rolls

Topics covered

• acquisitions
• permanent capital
• private equity
• entrepreneurship
• investing

Keywords

• acquisitions
• permanent capital
• private equity
• entrepreneurship
• investing
• Berkshire Hathaway
• PieLAB Capital

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PieLAB Capital, Berkshire Hathaway, Constellation Software

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