Many home-service businesses will never be touched by private equity

Ligtenberg notes that while PE entering the trades is a real phenomenon, thousands of businesses will never have to deal with private equity, and characterizes the PE/AI news as largely noise that poses no existential risk.

“Obviously, there's still so many thousands of businesses that will never, you know, never have to worry or touch private equity, but this is a very real thing.”

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