What is After the Close?
After the Close is a weekly newsletter for principals, MDs, and VPs at private equity, venture capital, and hedge funds. We cover the financial questions that come after the deals close — the stuff that affects your personal wealth that nobody talks about publicly.
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What We Write About
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What You Won't Find Here
This newsletter is specific. If you're not a fund principal, most of it won't be relevant. That's by design.
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Who Writes This?
For now, I'm staying anonymous. Not because I'm saying anything controversial — I'm not. But because I want the ideas to stand on their own without the filter of "what firm is this person at" or "what's their angle."
What I can tell you: I've spent 10+ engaged the carried interest conversations, the liquidity event planning, the co-invest decisions. I've made mistakes and learned from them. Maybe the anonymous thing changes eventually. For now, the focus is on being useful.
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The Basics
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One email per week. Specific, practical, occasionally funny. If your carry just vested and you have no idea what to do with it — this is for you.