Brent Beshore Net Worth 2026: Permanent Equity Founder and CEO

No reputable outlet has published an estimate of Brent Beshore's net worth. An earlier version of this page listed an income of $50 million a year with no source; we have removed it. What is documented is the firm he built: Beshore is the founder and CEO of Permanent Equity, a private equity firm in Columbia, Missouri, that he started in 2007 and that raised a $50 million fund in 2017 and a $248 million fund in 2019 to buy family-owned businesses and hold them for decades.

What is Brent Beshore's net worth?

Forbes, Bloomberg and other outlets that track wealth have not published a figure for Beshore. Permanent Equity is privately held, and neither its profits nor Beshore's ownership share are public, so any net worth number would be a guess.

Some clues about his finances come from his own annual letters. In the 2017 letter, he wrote that before raising outside money he had self-funded the firm's deals, so his personal capital and the firm's capacity were tied together. He also wrote that, apart from a modest inheritance for his children, he and his wife plan to give most of their wealth toward reducing poverty. In the 2019 letter, he recalled a friend teasing him that he did not need a fund because he already had plenty of money.

His wealth, in short, sits in a private firm and its portfolio of small companies, and he has said he intends to give much of it away.

Brent Beshore's yearly earnings, monthly income and salary

His salary and yearly income have never been disclosed. The figures that appeared here before ($50 million a year, $4 million a month, $138,000 a day) had no source and were not credible for a firm of Permanent Equity's size.

Beshore has described the firm's fee model publicly. Colin Keeley's operating manual on the firm quotes him saying, in effect, that Permanent Equity does not charge fees on money investors cannot spend. The firm earns mainly from the profits of the companies it owns rather than from management fees, which is part of why its partners' pay is hard to estimate from outside.

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Permanent Equity: the business behind the wealth

Beshore founded the firm in 2007 under the name adventur.es and later renamed it Permanent Equity. According to the firm's biography of him, the idea was simple: buy good small companies and keep them. The firm does not plan to sell what it buys and rarely uses debt.

Before the funds, Beshore had self-funded the business. Colin Keeley's profile says he started a branding and events company that he sold to an employee, then an ad agency, and then bought his first operating company with an SBA loan. Within five years the group owned five businesses. The first fund's anchor investors were the O'Shaughnessy and Vlasic families, after Beshore met investor Patrick O'Shaughnessy on Twitter.

In 2021 Business Insider described the firm as managing a $300 million fund that looks for well-run, often "boring" companies, such as glass makers or swimming pool businesses, and plans to partner with them for 25 years or more. He told the outlet the first thing he looks for is how an owner treats employees, customers and suppliers.

Beshore also sits on the boards of several portfolio and partner companies, including Air-Cert, Mediacross, Pacific Air Industries and 10th St. Talent.

Early life and family

Beshore grew up in Joplin, Missouri. His firm's biography says he started his first business at age seven, making bows and arrows to sell in his neighborhood. The earlier claims on this page about his parents' jobs, and about mowing lawns and walking dogs, had no source and have been removed.

Brent Beshore's wife

Beshore is married to Dr. Erica Beshore. The firm's biography says they are raising three daughters and a son, and his 2019 letter mentions the birth of their third daughter that year.

Education

He studied politics, with an emphasis on poverty studies, at Washington and Lee University, and then spent time at the University of Missouri School of Law before going back to building businesses. We found no source for the master's degree that this page previously mentioned, so it has been removed.

Professional life beyond the firm

• Author. The Messy Marketplace, a guide to selling a company (2018; second edition 2024).
• Events. He founded Main Street Summit and helped create Capital Camp. Startland News reported in October 2025 that the Columbia summit, launched by Permanent Equity, was entering its third year with more than 120 speakers, including Tim Tebow.
• Buffett dinner. CNBC reported in 2017 that Beshore joined Patrick O'Shaughnessy and Ted Seides for a three-hour dinner with Warren Buffett in Omaha.
• Community. He serves on the board of Love Columbia and is active in his church.

Age, height and weight

His date of birth, height and weight have not been published by a reliable source. The previous version of this page said he was 35, 5 feet 5 inches tall and 130 kg, without a source; those details have been removed. He founded his firm in 2007 and was writing annual letters about his young children in 2017 and 2019.

See Also: Breck Collingsworth Net Worth. For other investment firm founders, see Alec Litowitz and Barry Lundgren.

Contact details

We do not publish personal phone numbers. Business owners and investors can reach Beshore through Permanent Equity's website.

Why no net worth figure is given

Permanent Equity does not publish its returns, profits or ownership split. Fund size is money committed by outside investors, not Beshore's own wealth, so $248 million or $300 million should not be read as his net worth. Until a reputable outlet reports a figure, the honest answer is that his net worth is unknown.