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The Seller’s Playbook

Glossary · Part 1, Before You Go to Market

Private equity (PE)

Investment firms that buy companies to grow and resell them. A platform is a first, anchor acquisition; an add-on is a smaller company bolted onto a platform.

Where it shows up in the book

Look it up in a sentence, then read the chapter

Nothing in the book needs a dictionary of jargon to follow, but when a piece of deal language shows up, this is where it is defined. The chapters hold the reasoning.