[colin_mccabe]

PE is not VC. VC is targeted at early-stage companies, which Intel is not.

[bnop]

Replace VC with shareholders - the point is the same. Someone wants more money out than in. That same someone doesn’t have long-term incentive to care about our future, or even the customer

To achieve that, business owners do as I mentioned and more. Not out of maliciousness or spite, but out of necessity

[sidewndr46]

Depending on the PE firm, it could make the worst VC look like an angel