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Jul 2022
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Graham Weaver on Private Equity

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Graham Weaver, who is the founder and CEO of Alpine Investors, a PeopleFirst private equity firm in San Francisco which invests in software and services. Graham has been in private equity for over 20 years, having started Alpine in his dorm room at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 

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