He Runs a PE Fund and Acquires Digital Companies. Here's How He Decides.
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He Runs a PE Fund and Acquires Digital Companies. Here's How He Decides.
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Most founders who approach PE funds for funding have a number in their head that is, in Dmytro Bondar's words, "pretty much randomly calculated." In this conversation, Dmytro walks through what actually matters when a PE fund evaluates a company: cash flow over projections, realistic timing over optimistic promises, and a question most investors never ask, what does the founder do with their money?
Dmytro also explains why he now runs a test project with every acquisition target before signing papers, after learning the hard way that numbers on a PnL tell you nothing about culture fit. He covers the management breaking points at 30, 150, and 200 people, why promoting your best expert to manager is almost always the wrong move, and why his one piece of advice to his younger self is: play in bigger markets.
Dmytro Bondar is CEO of Boosta and runs a private equity fund focused on digital businesses. He has scaled teams from two people to over 200.