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Blackstone
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“And a very nice segue to going into Blackstone, and you worked there with Steve Schwarzman, which actually, you recently came out with a very interesting book.”
From Adam Jiwan“How was the experience of being at Blackstone?”
From Adam Jiwan“Blackstone was a great experience in the sense that it exposed me to different types of businesses, different business models, different industries, exposed me to the investment process, developing analytical discipline and rigor because we worked literally 100 hours a week.”
From Adam Jiwan“He's brilliant. I think whether it was Steve Schwarzman or Mark Gallogly, who went on to create Centerbridge, these individuals were extraordinary investors and not just investors; they were great business builders themselves, which is what I think made them quite unique that they weren't just investing in other people's companies, they were also building their own business, in this case, Blackstone.”
From Adam Jiwan“What did you learn now that you were able to work with Steve Schwarzman or with people at the top-level at Blackstone, and then also with someone like George Soros, what were some of the patterns that you were seeing of what made those individuals so great?”
From Adam Jiwan“After you were doing it with George Soros and before that with Blackstone, you decided to do a TPG, which is obviously more on the growth side of things.”
From Adam Jiwan“TPG was a remarkable experience for you, especially to be able to see opportunities more at an earlier stage kind of thing based on what you were seeing with, let's say, Goldman Sachs or Blackstone.”
From Adam Jiwan“Your first job, your first real job, that was Blackstone. What were you doing here?”
From Matt Salzberg“When I graduated from college, I went to Blackstone. I was an analyst in the private equity group.”
From Matt Salzberg“But in the more professional context, Blackstone was an amazing training ground for just understanding how people really think about strategy, making money, and you get exposed to tons of different industries.”
From Matt Salzberg“I was there during '04 to '08, which was kind of the heat of private equities really, really big heyday more recently where Blackstone was doing 20-billion-dollar public to privates every week.”
From Matt Salzberg“Wow. I believe Blackstone now manages something like over 400 billion.”
From Matt Salzberg“What did you learn from your experience at Blackstone?”
From Matt Salzberg“I think between my time at Blackstone and then later on in my career, I was a venture capitalist, Bessemer Venture Partners.”
From Matt Salzberg“Blackstone invested. Google Ventures invested. Bloomberg Beta, Aetna Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, etc. all because they would be direct beneficiaries of this product.”
From Fred_Kneip“I was able to partner up with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and a host of UK family offices to raise money, and invest in equity.”
From Vishal Garg“Then I increased the size of the pool to 3 million dollars, and then I started talking to some of my friends, and one of the guys who had worked with us and had invested in Future Finance at Blackstone really liked it.”
From Vishal Garg“Then we got Blackstone to be an equity partner and provide a lending facility.”
From Vishal Garg“I think Climb Credit has raised over 150 million dollars from Goldman Sachs, from Blackstone, and a bunch of education and social-impact focused venture capital companies.”
From Vishal Garg“Let’s talk about your next rodeo because next after this, you did a little bit of private equity first in Chicago and then joining KKR, one of the best private equity firms out there with the likes of Blackstone and so forth.”
From Roman Pedan“I applied to 100 different jobs, and I ended up at Blackstone.”
From Spike-Lipkin“When I joined Blackstone, I didn’t know what investing was.”
From Spike-Lipkin“Talking about building, after you graduated and you go into it, one of the big pivotal moments before you entered startups is working at Blackstone.”
From Spike-Lipkin“In Blackstone, where you started, they were developing the real estates out of the business, which now is literally one of the biggest investment managers in real estate.”
From Spike-Lipkin“Blackstone was investing very heavily in recovery.”
From Spike-Lipkin“I got to see the very early stages of the business Blackstone formed, and I handled a bunch of things that no one else wanted to handle, including insurance, which exposed me to this really not well-understood world – the set of products that every business out there needs to buy, every product in the world is made possible because there’s insurance.”
From Spike-Lipkin“In this case, at Blackstone, you had the opportunity of working with Jon Gray directly.”
From Spike-Lipkin“The exposure to Jon and other senior folks at Blackstone was incredible.”
From Spike-Lipkin“I was so impressed seeing Jon do that and seeing other senior folks at Blackstone do that – be able to take in hundreds of data points and make sense of this complexity and explain it in a way that anyone could understand.”
From Spike-Lipkin“I think I understood that because I saw incredible people at Blackstone and at Opendoor, but the last couple of years have only underscored that lesson.”
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