Investment firm · 11 mentions
KKR
Notable mentions
“You have RRE, Founders Fund, QED, we were talking about them, DFJ, and then I also saw more on the private equity type of thing: KKR, Tiger Global.”
From Al Goldstein“We brought in KKR, which is a large private equity firm.”
From Duke Rohlen“Ajax is an entity that was formed by KKR and me.”
From Duke Rohlen“What KKR did is they said, "Why don't we put 100 million dollars behind you, Duke, so that you can go and leverage this model that you have.”
From Duke Rohlen“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 was very fortunate to be among incredibly talented, passionate, capable, and determined team members both at Walton Street Capital in Chicago and KKR in New York.”
From Roman Pedan“Yeah, maybe I can take you back to leaving Walton Street Capital to joining KKR because the reasons I joined KKR were also some of the reasons why I was so excited about Stanford.”
From Roman Pedan“KKR, this amazing institution, was just creating its real estate theme when I joined as its seventh member.”
From Roman Pedan“As KKR was transitioning from this amazing growth phase from a startup to a more stable real estate business, it felt like the right time to go to a place like Stanford that so much fostered entrepreneurship and the spirit of building to try to take those learnings and apply them in a venture of my own.”
From Roman Pedan“The initial idea actually came from living in New York, working at KKR, and Airbnb being an apartment in New York City.”
From Roman Pedan“The consulting from Accenture and McKenzie, and then also the investing from KKR.”
From Kelvin Tao
