Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Why Private Equity Firms are Halting Withdrawals" video.

  1. Private equity has grown exponentially over the last couple decades, but it has collapsed in the last year with most funds making no new investments. Turns out the returns, risks, and fees were identical to crowdfunding.
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  2. Dude, most private equity funds have rich chumps as investors. And a bigger issue with pensions is that most of them aren't fully funded.
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  3. You bring up the two biggest private equity firms, but understand there are tens of thousands of these firms.
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  4. It's not corruption if it's legal.
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  5. @ZeromuS_  Dude, both crowd funding and early stage private equity say that one in four firms succeed, that the average firm has 10-20 employees, and that they raise a couple million bucks on average. The difference is crowdfunding favors innovative consumer products and private equity favors innovative business solutions.
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  6.  @joshuad1716  there's no basis for that
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  7. @crescentprincekronos2518  this is mostly the US we're talking about
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  8. @mohamedelyaouti2051  equity and debt ultimately are the same. The difference is whether the greater risk and hence greater reward lays with the borrower or lender.
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