PE Value Creation: A Product Leader's Guide to Portfolio Company Growth

PE firms care about three numbers: revenue growth rate, margin expansion, and multiple expansion. Product strategy maps to all three, but most portfolio companies do not connect product to the value creation plan until month 6 or later. That is 6 months of compounding growth lost.

I work with PE operating partners and portfolio company CEOs to align product to the investment thesis from day one. Companies that do this see 40-60% faster realization of growth targets. These articles cover the playbooks.