David Rubenstein
10 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 12, 2021 by David Rubenstein · said 4 times in 4 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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Jul 12, 2021
Rubenstein: Business fundraising is harder than political or philanthropic fundraising
“When you think about it, there are three types of fundraising. One is for philanthropic, one is for political campaigns, and one is for business. I'd say the easiest is probably political because in many ways it's a smaller amount of money, typically until the…”
Jul 12, 2021 neutral
Rubenstein: Carlyle Group launched with four co-founders and $5M
“We had four of us at the beginning. The person from Marriott, his name was Steve Norris, joined us. Then we went out, and he recruited, with my help, another guy from Marriott, Dan Daniello, and then we recruited Bill Conway, who was then the CFO of MCI. Those…”
Jul 12, 2021
Jul 12, 2021 positive
Jul 12, 2021
Rubenstein: Family office enables higher-risk investments than Carlyle allows
“I decided I would do it for a couple of reasons. One, I can diversify. Carlisle doesn't invest in every area. Two, I could be more involved in some ways by taking bigger risk if it's my money. I don't have a fiduciary responsibility to outsiders. So I could ta…”
Jul 12, 2021 positive
Rubenstein's family office backs an enormous number of first-time funds
“In my family office, I invest an enormous number of first funds because I think they're smaller and they probably need me more and I can probably pay more attention to what they're doing and there'll be more co-investment opportunities and so forth”
Jul 12, 2021 neutral
Rubenstein: Fundraising lacks dealmakers' social status in private equity
“I do think that fundraising is something that doesn't have the social status that maybe dealmakers have accorded themselves. In other words, if you look at the totem pole of people in the private equity world or in the investment world, people generally don't …”
Jul 12, 2021 neutral
Jul 12, 2021 negative
Rubenstein: Carlyle sold Amazon at IPO and passed on Facebook and Netscape
“Well, the mistakes that I made and not pursuing Mark Zuckerberg when he was at Harvard, when my now son-in-law was prepared to introduce me to him, or when we kind of sold our stake in Amazon at the IPO. And then also a young man showed up in our office one ti…”