Book Review: The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital

Ten successful operators in private equity and venture capital explain how they created wealth in Robert A. Finkel’s The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital (McGraw Hill, 2010). They have both vision and imagination as well as financial and management discipline.

Some of their successes are well known names: Levi Strauss, Young and Rubicam, Apollo Computer, Skype, Amgen. In addition to discussing their successes, the essays are candid in describing their failures. Each chapter lets the reader learn from the masters, an education that few get.

This book is a unique opportunity to be with the masters of two major investment sectors which are characterized by big profits, and at times by big risk.

–William A. Hayes