Megan Greenwell
@greenwell.bsky.social
Journalist, writing narrative features for Businessweek and other places. My book Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream is out now! Order it here: https://bookshop.org/a/109816/9780063299351
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I mentioned this stat from Alisa Wood of KKR in a talk I did a few weeks ago, but did you know: There are more private equity firms in the United States than there are McDonald's? (~19,000 vs. 14,000) In 1980, there were 24 PE firms *total* in the U.S. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This Harper’s pullout on media consolidation caught my attention from across the concourse. As I wrote last month, this might be in my top ten list of things to make sense of.
November 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Very cool, very neat. I hate how @greenwell.bsky.social's book keeps appearing in the wild. Need to read it again cuz I don't have enough extreme rage these days. When this country undergoes Reconstruction v.2, PE has to be one of the biggest targets
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November 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Very cool, very neat. I hate how @greenwell.bsky.social's book keeps appearing in the wild. Need to read it again cuz I don't have enough extreme rage these days. When this country undergoes Reconstruction v.2, PE has to be one of the biggest targets
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SO proud and thrilled to see @greenwell.bsky.social's BAD COMPANY on Kirkus's Best Nonfiction of 2025!! www.kirkusreviews.com/best-of/2025...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
SO proud and thrilled to see @greenwell.bsky.social's BAD COMPANY on Kirkus's Best Nonfiction of 2025!! www.kirkusreviews.com/best-of/2025...
BAD COMPANY made the Kirkus list of best nonfiction of the year. I tried to think of something funny to say about that to deflect how meaningful I find that and totally failed. Feels good man.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
BAD COMPANY made the Kirkus list of best nonfiction of the year. I tried to think of something funny to say about that to deflect how meaningful I find that and totally failed. Feels good man.
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Story also mentioned the St. Louis fire in 1973 that vanished history:
"His memory and notes are what we have to go on. His notes mention every place he went from Seattle to Inchon, and they make no mention of Jeju"
Which reminded me of another one of my favorite features by @greenwell.bsky.social
"His memory and notes are what we have to go on. His notes mention every place he went from Seattle to Inchon, and they make no mention of Jeju"
Which reminded me of another one of my favorite features by @greenwell.bsky.social
The Night 17 Million Precious Military Records Went Up in Smoke
Fifty years ago, a fire ripped through the National Personnel Records Center. It set off a massive project to save crucial pieces of American history—including, I hoped, my grandfather’s.
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November 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Story also mentioned the St. Louis fire in 1973 that vanished history:
"His memory and notes are what we have to go on. His notes mention every place he went from Seattle to Inchon, and they make no mention of Jeju"
Which reminded me of another one of my favorite features by @greenwell.bsky.social
"His memory and notes are what we have to go on. His notes mention every place he went from Seattle to Inchon, and they make no mention of Jeju"
Which reminded me of another one of my favorite features by @greenwell.bsky.social
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I'm extremely freaking thrilled to have been named one of two runners-up in the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing's Best in Business Book Awards. (The fact that the other is the great @kateconger.com / @rmac.bsky.social duo makes it even cooler.) sabew.org/2025/11/winn...
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I'm extremely freaking thrilled to have been named one of two runners-up in the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing's Best in Business Book Awards. (The fact that the other is the great @kateconger.com / @rmac.bsky.social duo makes it even cooler.) sabew.org/2025/11/winn...
Yes, and: There are lots of reporting jobs at startup nonprofit local news organizations doing really important work outside of corporate ownership, for any journalists willing to consider living outside of the nation's three largest cities!
November 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Yes, and: There are lots of reporting jobs at startup nonprofit local news organizations doing really important work outside of corporate ownership, for any journalists willing to consider living outside of the nation's three largest cities!
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This is a very good book! @greenwell.bsky.social is great
BAD COMPANY
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
November 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This is a very good book! @greenwell.bsky.social is great
BAD COMPANY
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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This is one of the things I hate most about modern capitalism. The idea of making money has been fully peeled away from delivering any kind of goods or services that people would want to pay money for.
What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business
I learned many surprising lessons from my 20 months as editor-in-chief of...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This is one of the things I hate most about modern capitalism. The idea of making money has been fully peeled away from delivering any kind of goods or services that people would want to pay money for.
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“I had thought that the point of buying a beloved, profitable publication was to make it more profitable… That is not the point of buying a beloved, profitable publication (or any business). The point is to make the private equity firm more profitable.”
What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business
I learned many surprising lessons from my 20 months as editor-in-chief of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
“I had thought that the point of buying a beloved, profitable publication was to make it more profitable… That is not the point of buying a beloved, profitable publication (or any business). The point is to make the private equity firm more profitable.”
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if people love this piece they should check out this book by an equally talented writer
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Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream by Megan Greenwell has an overall rating of Rave based on 6 book reviews.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
if people love this piece they should check out this book by an equally talented writer
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Still one of the best pieces about modern media I've ever read I still revisit it
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Still one of the best pieces about modern media I've ever read I still revisit it
What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business
I learned many surprising lessons from my 20 months as editor-in-chief of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
Happy pub day to @sarahweinman.com! Sarah is unfailingly supportive of other authors, a deeply kind and generous person in an industry with far too few of them. She's also a stone-cold genius. Buy WITHOUT CONSENT!
She Was a Victim. She Became a Headline. Here, She’s a Person.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Happy pub day to @sarahweinman.com! Sarah is unfailingly supportive of other authors, a deeply kind and generous person in an industry with far too few of them. She's also a stone-cold genius. Buy WITHOUT CONSENT!
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Making charms, listening to bad company by @greenwell.bsky.social and getting mad about health care.
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Making charms, listening to bad company by @greenwell.bsky.social and getting mad about health care.
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They’re playing your song @greenwell.bsky.social
Isn't Denny's closing a bunch of locations, and didn't Hooters just declare bankruptcy?
Private equity parent of Hooters, PF Changs, and Denny's reportedly nearing a purchse of Papa John's (PZZA).
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
They’re playing your song @greenwell.bsky.social
Hi hello, your friendly neighborhood museumhead here with a PSA that if you live in NYC or have ANY opportunity to get to NYC before February, the Ruth Asawa exhibition at MoMA is the best thing I’ve seen all year.
November 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Hi hello, your friendly neighborhood museumhead here with a PSA that if you live in NYC or have ANY opportunity to get to NYC before February, the Ruth Asawa exhibition at MoMA is the best thing I’ve seen all year.
BAD COMPANY
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
November 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Finally got around to reading @greenwell.bsky.social's BAD COMPANY. Turns out I DO I have room in my heart for more incandescent rage!
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Finally got around to reading @greenwell.bsky.social's BAD COMPANY. Turns out I DO I have room in my heart for more incandescent rage!
feeling sorry for all the millionaires and billionaires who didn’t get to see this perfect NYC sunset because they fled the city forever today. 😞
November 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
feeling sorry for all the millionaires and billionaires who didn’t get to see this perfect NYC sunset because they fled the city forever today. 😞
If you are a cool books lady fear-mongering about a municipal election, you should simply disclose who your father is, how much money he’s made from private equity, and how much he donated to Donald Trump!
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
If you are a cool books lady fear-mongering about a municipal election, you should simply disclose who your father is, how much money he’s made from private equity, and how much he donated to Donald Trump!
I desperately need answers re: whether someone on Zohran’s team has shown him the horny copypasta.
November 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I desperately need answers re: whether someone on Zohran’s team has shown him the horny copypasta.
Hope this high school classmate of mine — who, I must repeat, works on affordable housing issues 3,000 miles away from NYC — is having a good night!
A tenant lawyer I went to high school with, who has never lived in NYC, told me that I’m a “Kapo” and that my Holocaust survivor grandfather was rolling in his grave, after I said more people voted for Mamdani because of affordability concerns than because they want to globalize the intifada.
If I may be a contrarian here I'd argue that the victory of a democratic socialist is not "like a spiritual Kristallnacht."
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Hope this high school classmate of mine — who, I must repeat, works on affordable housing issues 3,000 miles away from NYC — is having a good night!