PE funds that don’t make you leave

Starting an updated thread on this. Ignore title. Looking to go to an ASO role at a PE fund and stay. Have no interest in MBA. Could someone provide a list of funds that are very open to promoting pre MBA associates? And feel free to list funds with the opposite structure.

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