How Private Equity Ruined Everything - with Hettie O'Brien

Hettie O'Brien is a journalist at the Guardian who has written the timely book ‘The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself’. I was extremely pleased when Hettie sent me this book and a request for an interview/blurb because it was something I’d been thinking about a lot recently - as have many others. Private equity firms generally bear little to no risk for their decisions as they asset strip not just other companies, but care homes and the public services we all depend on. There are few industries where the profit motive sits so blatantly at odds with any discernible benefit for anyone other than the owners. As O’Brien shows, private equity has its claws in a wider array of modern problems than you might first think. I can’t wait to chat to Hettie about what motivated her to write this book and what we can to do stop these bastards.