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amazingamazingtoday at 1:17 PM2 repliesview on HN

Your comment is the one that seems like fiction. You are saying PE is unbeatable? Per the article there is a backlog of orders. What is stopping one of the previous owners from creating another company and taking them?

Sue for what exactly? Of course they will be disruptive, that is what competing means.


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DangitBobbytoday at 1:20 PM

> What is stopping one of the previous owners from creating another company and taking them?

... they sold the original business to retire??

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AndrewKemendotoday at 1:24 PM

> What is stopping one of the previous owners from creating another company and taking them?

You will not find any investors.

The investors that want to invest in fire trucks already invested in the PE fund and will give them money over any new start

That’s the point

There’s no money elsewhere.

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