# How do you start a private equity firm from scratch?

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Podcast: [Private Equity FunCast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/private-equity-funcast-7888038)
Published: 2026-03-04T15:18:00+00:00
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## Resource

In this episode, Devin and Jim rewind to 2014 — and a $12 bottle of Cabernet at the Macaroni Grill — where they hatched the plan to leave their firm and build a new private equity firm from nothing. This is the insider's guide they wish they'd had.

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