PE seen creating multi-millionaire exits and elevating the trades' perception

Sentiment signal: private equity is described as making many trade owners multi-millionaires, enabling lucrative exits, and changing the perception of HVAC as a career, citing a Wall Street Journal piece calling HVAC contractors a new millionaire class.

“For example, a _Wall Street Journal_ article declared HVAC contractors were the new millionaire class due to private equity.”

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