# Permanent Equity (Free Library)

Essays and letters from a 30-year-hold firm.

The free library from Brent Beshore's 30-year-hold private equity firm: annual letters, essays, podcasts, and operating guidance from a team that buys $3M to $25M free-cash-flow family companies and wrote The Messy Marketplace.

- Category: Education & Programs
- Pricing model: Free
- Where it fits: Learn & Choose Your Path, Operate & Grow the Business
- Website: https://www.permanentequity.com/content

## At a Glance

The best free reading on ownership temperament in the space; pair the letters with the operationally minded podcasts and skim with the firm's larger deal size in mind.

## What It Costs

The letters, essays, and audio are free on the site; the firm's Capital Camp conference and the book are priced separately.

## Best For

Buyers who want to think like a long-hold owner rather than a flipper, and sellers trying to understand how thoughtful buyers actually evaluate them

## Pros and Cons

- Pro: Practitioner writing from actual control acquisitions, not commentary; the annual letters read like operating case studies
- Pro: The seller-side lens (the firm courts founders) teaches buyers what good looks like from the other chair
- Pro: Free, deep archive spanning a decade of deals and operations
- Con: The firm buys larger companies than most [searchers](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/searcher); scale-specific advice needs translation downward
- Con: Content marketing for their deal flow, however genuinely useful; read the incentive plainly
- Con: No structure or sequence; it is a library, not a course

## What Searchers Say

Among the most-cited content bodies in the SMB acquisition world; the annual letters circulate well beyond the firm's own audience and the firm's book grew out of this corpus.

## Sources

- https://www.permanentequity.com/letters
- https://www.permanentequity.com/content/category/Brent+Beshore

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Last checked: 2026-07-12

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