Rant thread at stupid college students and 1st year analysts

I hate these stupid college students/1st year analysts that keep calling literal TOP tier funds like H&F (who raises more capital than your precious TPG btw) a middle market fund. Are you people literally retarded? Below are some of the largest funds (ex funds which are mainly infra/energy e.g. EQT/Encap by 2019 YE last 5 years' capital raised). Basically all of them have flagship funds in the range of 10-26bn and deploy checks in the 400-2bn (ex co-invest) ranges. They have different strategies and so may compete differently but they are ALL large cap.

Educate yourselves and stop posting. FYI I (and you) should/would take H&F over any fund in the below list, yes even BX. It's probably the best job in PE.

Blackstone 82,851 New York The Carlyle Group 63,802 Washington DC KKR 47,977 New York CVC Capital Partners 47,413 London Warburg Pincus 36,557 New York Bain Capital 35,554 Boston Thoma Bravo 29,880 Chicago Apollo Global Management 29,001 New York Hellman & Friedman 26,900 San Francisco TPG 25,611 Fort Worth Vista Equity Partners 19,785 San Francisco Apax Partners 18,615 London General Atlantic 16,916 New York Clayton, Dubilier & Rice 16,509 New York Permira Advisers 16,394 London Advent International 16,026 Boston Silver Lake 15,000 Menlo Park

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