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Holding For Generations: The Permanent Equity Approach
Brent Beshore, Founder and CEO of Permanent Equity, joins Chris Powers for a conversation on long-term private investing and building enduring companies in the lower middle market without the traditional pressure to exit.
The discussion will explore Permanent Equity’s distinctive approach to value creation, alignment, and stewardship over decades, not years.
Meet Our Speakers
Brent Beshore
CEO & Founder
Permanent Equity
Brent Beshore is the founder of Permanent Equity, a private equity firm based in Columbia, Missouri that takes a long-term approach to acquiring and stewarding. After starting his career as an entrepreneur and operator, he “accidentally” bought a company – an inflection point that led to a series of acquisitions and ultimately the formation of Permanent Equity.
Today, the firm has 16 portfolio companies, a commitment to investing out of ~30-year funds, and a focus on long-term sustainability and preservation of independent culture.
In 2018, he published The Messy Marketplace: Selling Your Business in a World of Imperfect Buyers, a candid field guide for owners contemplating a sale. He also helped launch gatherings like Main Street Summit and Capital Camp, which bring together entrepreneurs, operators, and investors into community.
When he’s not working, he’s playing competitive tennis, bad golf, and raising three daughters and a son with his wife, Dr. Erica Beshore.
Chris Powers
Co-founder
Fostr AI
Partner
Collateral Partners
Host
POWERS, Podcast
Chris Powers is an entrepreneur with 20+ years of real estate development and investment experience. He founded Fort and to date, the company has invested over $2.1B in real estate throughout Texas and the Sunbelt. In 2025, he sold Fort to S2 Capital.
Chris the Co-Founder of Fostr AI. Fostr is an AI Operating System that transforms scattered information, people, and tools into a single intelligent layer.
Chris is Partner at Collateral Partners. Collateral is a specialized advisory firm focused on delivering investment, marketing, and sales collateral for sophisticated financial organizations.
He is also the host of POWERS, a podcast that has published 390+ episodes through a series of raw business conversations with business leaders and entrepreneurs.
Chris graduated with a BBA in Finance & Marketing from Texas Christian University. Chris is a member of the Fort Worth YPO Chapter and attends Christ Chapel Bible Church.
He lives in Fort Worth, TX with his wife and 3 kids.
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