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Do you think Stuckey kept his job?


Well?

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You're asking a question about a fictional movie. Your question is impossible to answer since nothing was suggested on or off screen whether or not he kept his job

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Very unlikely.

Would you want to work with the man who tried to rape your girlfriend/wife (I'm guessing Viv and Edward got married)?

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I think Stuckey was lucky that he kept his head.

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Career-wise, I think it is more about whether Stuckey still wanted to work for Edward. Edward's business was clearly changing from leveraged buyout to long term investment.

Most of the private equity businesses do not operate that way, and actually in term of business Edward could have ethical problems, because he had investors, that is usually how most private equity works. I think that was the reason he always had penthouse rooms in hotels, and KKR founders were known to throw lavish parties and buy expensive artwork, I think for the same reason, to show they are a success, investors go with winners.

I never liked how Vivian described leveraged buyout business as "stealing cars and sell parts", no, it is "buy cars and sell parts", and Edward not disagreeing with it always irks me a bit, I just take it as he was humouring or too lazy to correct her.

Anyway unless he showed the new direction was as lucrative or more so, his investors could pull out.

It is more likely Stuckey would start a mutiny, talking to the investors about the reason behind Edward's changing direction, and open another firm, taking a lot of Edward's clients with him, that is if he was any good, built a reputation for himself over the years.

In the end if you are not a shark, you are likely to be eaten by one.

Anyway, Edward was going to lose his business, one way of another that was going to happen, because the way he was going, he can't be a private equity operator anymore, I think the most mature way was to sell the business to Stuckey, at a premium, that is the happy ending, business wise.

It is of course a fairy-tale kind of movie, so they are not going to show that. In real world I think that is likely how it is going to turn out.

Of course in whatever case Edward was still a wealthy man, there were no ethical investment firms in the 90s, so if he did not like that idea of retirement, there were other ways, like start doing what Warren Buffett do, which is long term investment in businesses.

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