Reeve Waud was 29 years old, working out of a single office in Lake Forest, Illinois, when he founded Waud Capital Partners in 1993. No team. No outside investors. No institutional platform. What he had was a thesis: middle-market companies were being ignored by the largest buyout shops, and the smaller firms chasing them often lacked the resources to grow what they acquired. Three decades … Continue reading How Reeve Waud Built a $4.6 Billion Private Equity Firm From a One-Person Operation