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Introduction
Patrick
My conversation today is with my close friend, Brent Beshore. Brent is a private equity investor who owns and interacts with many small businesses, which have been hit especially hard by COVID. We discussed the various impacts that COVID has had and may have on small businesses and on the private equity investment community. Brent also proposes some policy actions, which he thinks may help those most in need. Please enjoy this conversation.
Impact of Covid on Small Businesses
Brent, thank you so much, my friend for doing this with me, I thought you would be a perfect person to check in with this week on, today is March 19th, because of your proximity to what I would call real American business, small business, not only as an investor, but just the number of relationships you have with business owners who obviously are facing a dire situation. So I appreciate your time. And I figured a fun place to start with would just be to get sort of a subjective lay of the land from you. How are you feeling? What are you seeing out there? How has this evolved so far for you?