Private equity loves secrecy. We don't.

Not Very Private Equity exists to pull back the curtain on how this industry really works. The good, the bad, and the absurdly overvalued.

It’s written by operators who lived inside the machine......building, fixing, and sometimes breaking portfolio companies. No theory. No deal-flow fluff. Just unfiltered observations on how value actually gets created (and destroyed) once the closing dinner ends.

Each week, we dig into:

• Deal Activity — who’s buying what, and why it matters.
• Operator Playbooks — what’s working in growth, marketing, and execution across real portfolio companies.
• Essays & Analysis — longer takes that challenge the industry’s most comfortable assumptions.

If you’re in private equity, building a PE-backed company, or just curious about how this quiet corner of capitalism really functions, this is your front-row seat.

No PR spin. No fund propaganda.

Just the stuff people actually talk about behind closed doors.

Because in private equity, the best ideas aren’t private for long.