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Apollo buy companies for cheap valuations with high leverage, or they buy the distressed debt, hoping to own the company. Both of those transactions are very hard to execute and are even harder under tight timelines. It's also become more competitive with other funds copying them. Imo, that is why the culture is so bad. Deals for good companies are stressful, can't imagine how stressful buying undervalued or distressed companies is and then owning them afterwards. Further, let's just imagine what it's like negotiating with other management team, lawyers, and lenders for these undervalued and distressed companies. Not necessarily best dynamics to do a deal.

To me that's why Apollo is so bad, bc everything about the deals they do is more stressful. But that's also why their returns are so phenomenal. 

TL;DR: Apollo's culture won't improve with Josh Harris leaving 

 

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