By PM I meant Product Management. A lot of PMs with MBAs are burned out IB Analysts who did the MBA to escape the grind.
> for a company that ended up owned by a firm; that was the terrible experience.
That's a bit different. Depending on the type of PE, it may have been a PE of last resort.
You only sell to Thoma Bravo if your company is an absolute dumpster fire and has no roadmap forward, so it needs drastic restructuring.
Sucks for line level ICs ofc.
