All The Acronyms
Another term for an Investor, such as an Investor in Alpine
What is a LP?
A form of investing favored by both banks and PE firms (including Alpine)
What is M&A?
The total amount of income generated by a business
What is revenue?
The process of investigating a business in order to determine if it will be a good investment
What is due diligence?
The concept that investing in the leaders of a business will increase returns for that company
What is PeopleFirst?
How much revenue is theoretically possible for a specific business
What is TAM?
A business that is more likely than others to stay profitable during a crisis
What is recession resistant?
A form of Investing achieved through M&A
What is a buy-and-build strategy?
The factor by which you’ve increased your original investment, or dollars out for dollars in
What are multiples?
A process to tackle a big challenge that a business is facing and come up with a creative solution
What are OFIs?
A calculation that shows the ratio of dollars out to dollars in on an investment
What is MOIC?
A business that is still led by whoever originally started it
What is founder-led?
Predictable future revenue that generally comes through regular repeat customers
What is reoccurring revenue?
The process of determining the theoretical value of a business
What is valuation?
Quarterly time set aside to work “on” the business instead of “in” the business
What are renewals?
An Alpine-specific approach to team and company-wide goal-setting
What is an OPP?
Alpine’s first fundraise that hit $1bil
What is Fund 7?
A measure that shows total returns over a set period of time
What is the Internal Rate of Return (IRR)?
One of the commonly used methods of valuation in Private Equity
What are LBOs?
The total Assets Under Management (AUM) of Alpine
What is $16bil?
This method includes accounting mechanisms that measure how the value of a specific asset will change over time
What is EBITDA?
Also called a “fund of funds”, this term describes a business owned by a PE firm that invests in a specific industry
What is an aggregator?
Increased revenue that comes from acquiring new businesses or opening new locations
What is inorganic growth?
A term for the amount of uninvested cash a fund has at any given time
What is dry powder?
The Alpine employee with the largest following on TikTok
What is Graham Weaver?