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Alex Sloane & Matt Perelman – Buy-and-Build Playbook in the Core Economy at GSP (EP.499)
- ▶ 12:27 Alex Sloane I always remind people talking to investors, prospective LPs, or prospective team members who spend a lot of our time recruiting, you have to think of GSP differently in the sense it's not like I was a partner at KKR and Matt was a partner…
Kieran Goodwin – Private Credit Concerns (EP.494)
- ▶ 38:19 Kieran Goodwin With B-Cred, Blackstone pretty much is the only alt manager that has gone through something. 4 times in the scene
Lane MacDonald – Teamwork, Alignment, and Investing at the Highest Levels at SCS (EP.483)
- ▶ 56:20 Lane MacDonald The big Apollos, Blackstones, Goldman's, those are machines.
Robert Boucai & James Broyer – Tax-Efficient Multifamily Real Estate at Newbrook (EP.475)
- ▶ 3:28 Robert Bukai The best real estate job coming out of Wharton was at Blackstone. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:23 Robert Bukai When I was an analyst at Blackstone, I was told 90% of my job was formatting, which is a form of communication.
Michael Kelly – Democratizing Access to the Middle Market at Future Standard (EP.473)
- ▶ 36:25 Mike Kelly After we separated with Blackstone, Blackstone had gone on to build their own private wealth business and undertake building their own BDCs.
Jeff Aronson – Building Centerbridge Across the Capital Structure (EP.468)
- ▶ 47:06 unnamed speaker The same way that Apollo or Blackstone or KKR may not necessarily look at a mid-cap investment size because it doesn't do it for them.
John Graham – Evolution of the Canadian Model at CPPIB (EP.465)
- ▶ 16:11 John Graham Think about some of the big asset managers, the Blackstones of the world, that are trillion dollar asset managers today.
Ted on Alt Goes Mainstream (EP.458)
- ▶ 11:12 Ted Seides You're not going to find a lot of people that don't know what they're doing at an Apollo or a Blackstone or a KKR.
Kipp deVeer – Scaling for Private Wealth Globally in Credit (Private Wealth 5, EP.449)
- ▶ 11:34 Kipp deVeer The early mover in that space was Blackstone by a long shot. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:59 Kipp deVeer A firm like Blackstone or KKR, who's been around 20 years and is always on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.
Michael Sidgmore – Alternatives Go Mainstream (Private Wealth 1, EP.443)
- ▶ 20:37 Michael Sidgmore Blackstone has a team of hundreds of people.
Meghan Reynolds – Art of Capital Formation (EP.438)
- ▶ 53:35 Megan Reynolds You saw the I Capitals of the world, like Blackstone selling massively at JP Morgan, KKR, all those mega funds started selling in the Wealth Channel.
Mitchell Green - Lead Edge of Harnessing Networks (EP.429)
- ▶ 33:22 unnamed speaker But the type of work we do, we pride ourselves, would look like KKR or Blackstone or General Atlantic or Leonard Green.
Ron Biscardi and Katie O'Reilly - Maximizing Value at Conferences (EP.425)
- ▶ 25:29 Ron Biscardi KKR, Blackstone, Carlisle.
Year in Review 2024 (EP.424)
- ▶ 10:52 Ted Seides Blackstone, the blue chip organization, all of a sudden John Gray is on LinkedIn with a series of videos of him going for a morning run in different locations around the world.
Scott Bessent - Macro Maven (EP.415)
- ▶ 35:23 Scott Bessent I can give you an answer in three days, whereas Blackstone or somebody might have to take it to an investment committee with five memos in three weeks, and build it, and they came.
Stephen Nesbitt – Innovation in Private Markets for RIAs (EP.410)
- ▶ 31:23 Steve Nesbitt We're going to compete with the Blackstones, et cetera, and those channels, no one knew who Cliffwater was.
Ben Hunt - The Stories that Drive Markets (EP.393)
Alex Abell - Lower Middle Market Buyout Investing at RCP (EP.383)
- ▶ 13:07 Alex Abell There's less firms to cover, and if you're doing very large checks into some of the larger players, like a KKR or a Blackstone, you probably don't need this type of tool to cover that part of the market.
Shiloh Bates – CLO Investing at Flat Rock Global (EP.379)
- ▶ 16:03 Shiloh Bates So Blackstone, BlackRock, KKR, Aries, they all have CLO management teams.
Michael Milken – Innovations in Finance, Medicine, and Education (EP.371)
- ▶ 5:07 Ted Seides Approximately 70 investment firms are headed by leaders who worked for Mike, including founders and leaders at Apollo, Ares, Blackstone, Canyon, Cerberus, Crescent, Golden Tree, and
- ▶ 27:55 Ted Seides And if I just run off the founders of Apollo, Aries, Blackstone, Canyon, Crescent, Mollus, Richard Handler, CEO of Jeffries, David Solomon at Goldman Sachs.
Gary Sernovitz - Inside the CIO Seat (EP.357)
- ▶ 39:15 Gary Sernovitz Maybe the answer is a Blackstone fund.
Michael Levy – Crow Family Real Estate Empire (EP.353)
- ▶ 10:13 Michael Levy There were really two firms who were leaders in terms of real estate private equity, Morgan Stanley and Blackstone.
Finny Kuruvilla – The Fourth Source of Alpha at Eventide (EP.343)
- ▶ 52:14 Finny Kuruvilla He was one of the managing directors at Claris Ventures, now at Blackstone, and he was the person who really found me and took me under his wing in the realm of biotech investing.
Stan Miranda – Modern Endowment Model at Partners Capital (EP.334)
- ▶ 9:12 Stan Miranda I knew the European private equity world cold, so it was the Premieres and CBCs and BC Partners, but also Blackstone and Bain Capital.
- ▶ 40:26 Stan Miranda The private equity owner can be a more value added owner than a huge Apollo Blackstone, even Bank Capital today and CBC.
Sachin Khajuria and Brendan Ballou – Private Equity: Profit or Plunder? (EP.331)
- ▶ 27:45 Brendan Ballou One of the examples that I was looking at was Blackstone's acquisition of Apria Healthcare, which ultimately had to enter into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department because of allegedly selling medical devices that… 2 times in the scene
Kipp deVeer – The World of Private Credit at Ares (EP.329)
- ▶ 13:34 Kipp deVeer We and a bunch of others, some of whom are at Aries, some of whom are at Blackstone, some of whom are at Nuvi, you know, a bunch of people are all over the industry.
- ▶ 28:36 unnamed speaker Number one, we have a much better brand as a public company because our private equity business is not the same private equity business as KKR and Blackstone and others who are in the headlines all the time for buying, you know, thirty… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:46 unnamed speaker It's Blue Owl, it's Golub Capital, it's KKR, Blackstone, Sixth Street, HPS, Apollo. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:00 Kipp deVeer If something happens to Blackstone or Apollo or KKR, we're going to get the same question.
Porter Collins and Vincent Daniel - Big Shorts and Big Longs (Capital Allocators, EP.325)
- ▶ 39:20 Vincent Daniel So you talk about my buddies at Aries, or Blackstone, or all the newbies that are coming on board, of course they're trying to fill the void.
Don Mullen –Single-Family Rentals at Pretium (Capital Allocators, EP.324)
- ▶ 1:02:20 Don Mullen And there's a lot of that in the investing world where you don't really get a penalty for buying Blackstone in most places. 3 times in the scene
Adam Shapiro – Post-Breeding Grounds for Rising Stars and Families (Capital Allocators, EP.319)
- ▶ 22:21 Adam Shapiro So it's harder to assess people actually out of Goldman or Blackstone or some of the really great firms, because it's just harder to tell was it them or was it the firm.
Marc Lasry – Avenues of Opportunity (Capital Allocators, EP.315)
- ▶ 24:52 Marc Lasry By 2008 and Blackstone, the value of that stock became 10, 20% of what they went public at.
Andy Lee – Empty Rooms: Investing in Tax Assets at Parallaxes Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.305)
Gregg Lemkau - The Evolution of MSD (Capital Allocators, EP.291)
- ▶ 33:24 Gregg Lemkau I don't want to go compete against Blackstone and Brookfield in real estate on price.
Sachin Khajuria – Two and Twenty, An Insider's Take on Private Equity (Capital Allocators, EP.285)
- ▶ 15:12 Sachin Khajuria You had TPG, you had KKR, you had Apollo, you have Blackstone, you have so many amazing firms.
- ▶ 25:54 Sachin Khajuria You need to, as somebody with a retirement account, know about Blackstone, Cardile, etc.
Thomas Majewski – Empty Rooms: Masterclass on CLOs at Eagle Point Credit Management (Capital Allocators, EP. 284)
- ▶ 51:31 Tom Majewski Someone like a Blackstone is going to be a very keenly bid firm.
Michael Rees – Inside GP Stakes at Dyal Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.278)
- ▶ 21:43 Michael Rees And so clearly over time, that set of objections has gone away because just about every investor out there works with Blackstone.
Matt Brown – Tidal Wave of Capital for Alternatives from Retail (Capital Allocators, EP.272)
- ▶ 15:32 Matt Brown Secondly, the sophistication in the product innovation that these large asset management firms are working on, whether it's an Apollo or Franklin Templeton, a Hamilton Lane, Blackstone, of course, comes to mind and others.
- ▶ 18:34 Matt Brown The Blackstones, the Apollos, the Aries, all these firms see the high stakes game of capturing that wealth, and they're going to compete for it and be the brand.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Private Equity Deals Podcast
- ▶ 44:46 Pete Stavros You could try and go convince one by one, do something different, whether that's for climate or labor or what have you, or in a more concentrated way, could you convince Blackstone, Carlyle, TPG, Apollo, Aries, Warburg, Pincus,
Mario Giannini – View from the Top of Private Equity at Hamilton Lane (Capital Allocators, EP.262)
- ▶ 7:21 Mario Giannini When Blackstone first came to see Hamilton Lane.
- ▶ 20:18 Mario Giannini So at a Blackstone, for example, and pick any firm, we have people who know people within different functions, within different areas, within different age groups.
Billy Libby – Disruptive Venture Funding at Upper90 (Capital Allocators, EP.251)
- ▶ 20:57 Billy Libby I was at Blackstone, and I want to do something a little more funky.
Christopher Zook – Thematic Investing and Raving Fans at CAZ Investments (Capital Allocators, EP.226)
- ▶ 25:45 Ted Seides Public company stocks, Blackstone, Apollo, Carlisle, the set of them that are available now in the public markets.
Ian Charles & Doc O'Connor – Investing in Sports Teams at Arctos Sports Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.225)
- ▶ 23:03 Ian Charles Names like Qualtrics, Microsoft, TIBCO, Blackstone, Appaloosa, Apollo, Fortress, Aries, Bain, really sophisticated people.
Erik Serrano Berntsen – Backing Alternative Founders at Stable Asset Management (Capital Allocators, EP.218)
- ▶ 44:23 unnamed speaker At Blackstone, you have Schwartzman and you had Peterson.
Matt Brown – Democratization of Alternatives at CAIS (Capital Allocators, EP.214)
- ▶ 20:56 Matt Brown Blackstone, of course, being one, Carlyle being another, KKR, but it's not limited just to the brand names.
- ▶ 45:19 Matt Brown I would say a mentor would be the wrong term because that would require us to spend time together, but through his books and through the conversations that we've been able to have, observing him build Blackstone, he's been a tremendous…
Barry Sternlicht – Masterclass in Real Estate in a Post-COVID World (Capital Allocators, EP.216)
- ▶ 27:23 Barry Sternlicht So I think the market, and it's true from lying from Blackstone or other firms.
Friends Reunion – Five Allocators Riff on Investing (Capital Allocators, EP.215)
- ▶ 44:56 Brett Barth I'm looking out the window in BlackRock and Blackstone are literally within a seven iron from here.
Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap –Inside the Sausage Factory of the Caesar's Restructuring (Capital Allocators, EP.209)
- ▶ 13:25 Sujit Indap And at the same time, in the financial world or on Wall Street, you've got this industry private equity, which is coming into its own as a major player, not just for small broken companies, which was its heritage, but rather these funds…
- ▶ 25:00 Max Frumes And in order to do that, they started negotiating with a gentleman by the name of Ryan Mollett, who's the point person for the Caesars investment for the credit investing arm of Blackstone called GSO.
- ▶ 38:34 Sujit Indap And so one of the twists in Caesars is that there are a series of small players in this land of giants of Elliott and Appaloosa and Oak Tree and Silverpoint and Blackstone and others where they are able to use the levers of a formal…
Wylie Fernyhough – Private Equity Stakes (Capital Allocators, EP.208)
- ▶ 5:07 Wylie Fernyhough So think Blue Owl, Blackstone, the big names.
- ▶ 5:17 Wylie Fernyhough So to really look at the history of stakes, you have to go back a good 30 plus years to when Blackstone sold a minority stake to Nico Securities in 1988. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:30 Ted Seides So you mentioned Dial, now Blue Owl, Peters Hill, and Goldman and Blackstone. 2 times in the scene
Private Equity Masters 8 – Chuck Davis – Stone Point Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.207)
- ▶ 49:16 Chuck Davis The big firms where you can run that sleeve for them, but you're really working for Blackstone, KKR, Goldman Sachs, whomever, and those are great platforms, and they can help you in a lot of ways, but if you want it to be your firm with…
Private Equity Masters 6 – Doug Ostrover – Blue Owl Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.205)
- ▶ 5:07 Ted Seides Previously, Doug was one of the founders and the O in GSO Capital Partners, which today is Blackstone's alternative credit platform.
- ▶ 16:43 Doug Ostrover When I left Blackstone in the summer of 2015, I started thinking about leaving in 14. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:37 Doug Ostrover So a lot of firms, KKR, Blackstone, a lot of firms are active in that.
- ▶ 1:00:12 Doug Ostrover And by staying the course, learning, getting smarter, taking risk at the right time, we were able to create GSO, sell it to Blackstone, then leave and go do it again.
Private Equity Masters 4: David Rubenstein – Carlyle Group (Capital Allocators, EP.203)
- ▶ 31:13 David Rubenstein In the end, if you look at the large firms that we're now talking about, and I'll use the four big ones, Blackstone, Carlyle, KKR, and Apollo. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:38 David Rubenstein So if you own a large part of a Carlisle or Blackstone, when is it appropriate to sell without making people think you don't think the company's future is very good? 3 times in the scene
Private Equity Master 2: John Connaughton – Bain Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.201)
- ▶ 44:36 Ted Seides In these last dozen to 15 years, starting probably with Blackstone, you have had some of your peers go public or have vehicles go public. 2 times in the scene
Innovation in Private Markets 3: Sulaiman Alderbas – A Massive Restart at PIFSS (Capital Allocators, EP.194)
- ▶ 27:14 Sulaiman Alderbas And then I reached out also to Gideon Berger from Blackstone.
Innovation in Private Markets 2: Mark Johnson – New Leaders in Private Equity at Astra (Capital Allocators, EP.193)
- ▶ 2:44 Ted Seides Whitney, Blackstone, and Carlyle.
- ▶ 11:06 Mark Johnson At Blackstone, I learned the intellectual honesty and rigor that goes into making good investment decisions. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:17 Mark Johnson You know, I worked at firms where there was a pantheon of great managers who had performed in amazing deals for Carlisle, for Blackstone, and
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 54:04 Jeff Hausenbold It doesn't matter if you're in a service industry and you're Goldman Sachs or McKinsey, if you're an investment industry and you're Fidelity or Blackstone or SoftBank, or you're creating a company, what you want to do is have a set of true… 2 times in the scene
Private Equity Masters: Paul Salem – Providence Equity Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.175)
- ▶ 20:20 Paul Salem We would never get the person who got the job offer from Blackstone or KKR, and we actually liked that.
- ▶ 31:10 Paul Salem Does Blackstone and Black Rock ever reunite someday?
- ▶ 39:36 Paul Salem To the younger generation, and that's just the way it always was, and then Blackstone decided to go public, and you realize that, you know, it doesn't have to be that way, and Providence Equity was never one to, we weren't big enough to go…
- ▶ 47:53 Paul Salem And then you have guys like Blackstone who just can raise money like no one else. 3 times in the scene
Chamath Palihapitiya – The Social Capital Flywheel (Capital Allocators, EP.167)
- ▶ 10:02 Chamath Palihapitiya It was Blackstone back in the day.
Randall Stutman - Admired Leadership (Capital Allocators, EP.150)
- ▶ 4:32 Ted Seides With something like 2000 senior executives and 400 CEOs, and in our world, with the most senior executives at JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Blackstone.
Sustainable Investing 9: Reuben Munger – Private Capital Perspective (Capital Allocators, EP.147)
- ▶ 31:28 Reuben Munger Going back to energy storage, in the last three months, we've seen both energy capital partners and Blackstone make big moves, and that's sort of saying, okay, what are we doing here?
Daniel Adamson – Innovation from Asset Giants at Capital Constellation (EP.136)
- ▶ 17:34 Daniel Adamson If you look at Blackstone, BlackRock, KKR, Carlisle, Apollo, Aries, etc., they were all born a generation ago.
- ▶ 29:35 Daniel Adamson You know, when Blackstone builds a multi-hundred billion dollar institution, and then it goes public, none of the pensions that put money into Blackstone in its early days get any benefit directly from its IPO. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:19 Daniel Adamson Blackstone's been working at this.
Tim Recker - Concentration at the James Irvine Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.100)
- ▶ 12:40 Tim Recker But they were first fund investors with Excel Ventures, with Blackstone, with Berkshire Partners, just a long list of firms that were excellent firms.
Matt Botein – Flexible Investing and Institutional Challenges (Capital Allocators, EP.88)
- ▶ 4:36 Ted Seides And a private equity principal at Blackstone.
- ▶ 8:59 Matt Botein David Tanner from Warburg, Tom Lynch from Blackstone. 2 times in the scene
Jen Prosek – Branding an Asset Management Firm (Capital Allocators, EP.81)
- ▶ 27:59 Jennifer Prosek And I feel like the AQRs and the Bridgewaters and the Blackstones have all been relatively successful having strong founders. 4 times in the scene
Josh Wolfe – Seeing the Lux (Capital Allocators, EP.65)
- ▶ 22:55 Josh Wolfe Pete Peterson, who passed away, was another who was an early investor at Blackstone.
Chris Douvos – Venture Capital's Super LP (Capital Allocators, EP.14)
- ▶ 1:01:56 unnamed speaker There's some groups that are kind of pushing, groups like ILPA, but they tend to push on, on a larger funds, you know, the, the, the Blackstone's the people that tend to take a lot of money from the, the state plans.