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The Dealmaker
- Lessons from a Life in Private Equity
- Narrated by: Simon Shepherd, Guy Hands - introduction
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin.
An inside account of the multibillion-pound world of private equity and a masterclass on the art of deal-making.
The Dealmaker is a frank and honest account of how a severely dyslexic child who struggled at school went on to graduate from Oxford and become a serial entrepreneur.
It describes Guy Hand's career in private equity, first at Nomura and then as head of his own company, Terra Firma. It looks in detail at the huge deals that Terra Firma has done over the years, involving everything from cinema chains and pubs to waste management, aircraft leasing and green energy. And it offers a brutally honest appraisal of the one deal that turned sour - the acquisition of multinational music recording and publishing company EMI in 2007, just as a global financial crash loomed on the horizon. Above all, it takes the listener inside the previously very secretive world of private equity, explaining how this multibillion-pound sector operates and providing audio portraits of some of the larger-than-life figures who people it.
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- 25-02-2024
A truly extraordinary story
An amazing story of talent, lost perspective, determination, personal sacrifice and success. I've seen similar things first hand but never at this level.
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- 14-01-2023
Insightful
This was a really interesting and insightful book which covered off some of the wonderful growth and challenges that come with private equity. A really honest and revealing look into decades of business and deals, which worked, and which didn’t.
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- John
- 23-07-2022
Excellent insight to mega deals and life
excellent insight into mega business deals, and a decade of work to realise what's important. brilliant book.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-04-2022
Great book.
Great book, I couldn't stop listening. Whether you are a finance person or not this was most interesting.
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- Adrian
- 17-04-2023
My favourite book on Audible
I really enjoyed this excellent and honest autobiography, it was really enjoyable and was an excellent insight into the world of private equity as well as Guy's persistence to ensure his own success. It's would have been easy to write a book about the numerous successes enjoyed by TerraFirma but this account covers the good, the bad and the ugly, which is very refreshing and informative. Highly recommended.
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- Matthias Prosser
- 04-06-2022
interesting read, deeply flawed author
Well written and well read account of a range of interesting deals, however I couldn't help but be unsettled by the authors apparent ambivalence to his wife, children and employees, sacrificing all in pursuit of financial gain.
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