Episode 5: Strap In Girls It's Time For An Episode About Private Equity

About this episode

The episode discusses the collapse of First Brands and explores private equity and its implications in various contexts.

On this episode of Tran Girlismo it's time to break down the First Brands collapse, so strap in for the most transgender explanation of shadow banking and private equity you'll hear this week. Also, Jordan fills Victoria in on Renault/Alpine's F1/WEC implosion. Then we exercise our right to make this podcast a little bit of a photography show because we wanna, and talk about private equity again in the context of the Kodak Alaris/Eastman Kodak split and the surprising direct distribution of Ektar and Ektachrome! Kodak if you're listening we'll both sell out for a pallet full of Ektachrome :) Referenced stories: Raybestos shut down @Motor1 2019 study on private equity job loss impacts @WaPo Private equity failure rate @CFA Institute Private equity discussion @The Guardian Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s video with Kid Rock and cold-dippin' jeans @Instagram HHS The 1963 Salad Oil Scandal @Well There's Your Problem First Brands bankruptcy filing @The Guardian First Brands sues Patrick James @D&O Diary First Brands creditors noticing their money is gone @Reuters First Brands fallout @Reuters Morningstar DBRS report on First Brands collapse Federal Indictment of the two brothers @DOJ…

People in this episode

Hosts: Victoria Scott, Jordan Hoffstetter

Topics covered

• private equity
• shadow banking
• automotive industry
• bankruptcy
• photography
• Kodak
• F1/WEC

Keywords

• private equity
• First Brands
• Kodak
• bankruptcy
• automotive
• shadow banking
• photography
• F1
• WEC

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: First Brands, Renault/Alpine, Kodak Alaris, Eastman Kodak, Raybestos, Motor1, WaPo, CFA Institute, The Guardian, Instagram

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