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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…
- ▶ 20:57 Matt Perelman George Roberts from KKR has a line, as long as the capital keeps flowing, eventually good things will happen, of which that story would certainly be true for.
Scott Kleinman – Apollo's Integrated Alternatives Platform (EP.481)
- ▶ 7:23 Scott Kleinman I was in this group that got to work with a lot of different private equity firms, the Apollo, Tom Lee, KKR, Forceman Little, Blackstone, and I got to know the Apollo guys.
Mike Gitlin – The Century of Capital Group (EP.479)
- ▶ 47:18 Mike Gitlin When we announced our partnership with KKR, it surprised a lot of people around the world who were looking at that announcement, and they were trying to figure out, what are they doing? 4 times in the scene
Year in Review 2025 (EP.478)
- ▶ 29:49 Ted Seides So KKR went from no one in private wealth to a team of 250 reps.
Josh Wolfe & Brett McGurk – Venture, Geopolitics, and the Next Frontier (EP.476)
- ▶ 8:39 Josh Wolfe They will take a page from the playbook of Apollo, Blackstone, Carlisle, TPG, KKR, all of whom went public during the 2009 to 2014 period.
Michael Kelly – Democratizing Access to the Middle Market at Future Standard (EP.473)
- ▶ 36:34 Mike Kelly We partnered with KKR.
- ▶ 50:28 Mike Kelly But I think it's tremendous that individual investors now get access to the likes of Blackstone and KKR and Aries and Apollo.
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.
Understanding the 401(k) Market – Eric Mogelof, KKR (EP.464)
- ▶ 1:34 Ted Seides Eric is the head of Global Client Solutions at KKR, and join me on the Private Wealth miniseries.
- ▶ 21:45 Eric Mogelof We at KKR work with a lot of those plan sponsors and have conversations with them all the time about their DB assets.
Mason Morfit and Rob Hale – Quiet Activism at ValueAct (EP.462)
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.
Tim Sullivan – Yale's Private Portfolio (EP.456)
- ▶ 1:18:06 Tim Sullivan The deal didn't go very well for KKR. 4 times in the scene
Kipp deVeer – Scaling for Private Wealth Globally in Credit (Private Wealth 5, EP.449)
- ▶ 19:01 Kipp deVeer I think there are a lot of folks that are sitting around with whatever their investable assets are, three to ten million dollars, and they're saying, all I read about is KKR and Apollo and Aries and Blackstone.
- ▶ 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.
Jon Madorsky – Navigating the Evolution of Private Equity Secondaries (EP.448)
- ▶ 8:33 Jon Madorsky In 1995 or 2000, KKR's fund might have been
Eric Mogelof – KKR's Pivot to Private Wealth (Private Wealth 3, EP.446)
- ▶ 6:50 Ted Seides My guest on the third episode of Private Wealth is Eric Moguloff, the head of Global Client Solutions at KKR, one of the world's leading alternative asset firms with roots in private equity dating back to 1976. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:53 Ted Seides What happened as you dove into that that led you to move from Pemko to KKR?
- ▶ 15:17 Eric Mogelof Here at KKR, we're really focused on just delivering investment solutions to our clients.
- ▶ 17:07 Eric Mogelof But in terms of us at KKR engaging directly with individual investors, it's just not our value proposition that we can deliver.
- ▶ 21:30 Eric Mogelof For example, we do a KKR Academy, where we bring advisors to KKR, and we talk to them about our capabilities and our investment solutions.
- ▶ 25:07 Eric Mogelof I can speak to what we do at KKR.
- ▶ 39:59 Eric Mogelof She would love to invest in KKR investment products, but the reality is for her, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:36 Eric Mogelof When I got here to KKR, we had a really great brand and we had this really great investment capabilities. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:52 Eric Mogelof I am so fortunate to be here at a company where we have so many amazing professionals, and so one of my most important goals over the next five years is to really help them grow in their roles and achieve the greatest impact to support our… 2 times in the scene
Michael Sidgmore – Alternatives Go Mainstream (Private Wealth 1, EP.443)
- ▶ 20:39 Michael Sidgmore Blue Owl, hundreds of people, KKR, Apollo, hundreds of people to serve the Wealth Channel.
- ▶ 25:39 Michael Sidgmore They can invest in Blackstone, they can invest in Apollo, Blue Owl, KKR, et cetera.
Ben Forman – Unlocking Blockchain's Potential (EP.441)
- ▶ 1:00:20 Ben Forman When I was at KKR, I thought I was going to be there forever. 2 times in the scene
Meghan Reynolds – Art of Capital Formation (EP.438)
- ▶ 52:20 Megan Reynolds I just was looking at KKR's returns, which were in a Bloomberg article, and sure enough, they're pre-eighties, pre-billion dollar funds, all returned. 3 times in the scene
Ed Grefenstette – Bold Allocations at The Dietrich Foundation (EP.437)
- ▶ 8:36 Ed Grefenstette The 19 seventies venture finally began to take form, and Henry Hillman and my father were anchor investors in Kleiner Perkins Fund One, and a few years later in KKR Fund One.
Brett Barth and Evan Roth – Stewarding Family Wealth at BBR (EP.433)
Ian Charles - Private Equity's New Rules (EP.431)
- ▶ 15:23 Ian Charles Aries, Apollo, Blackstone, KKRA, it's the biggest of the big.
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.
Chris and Rob Michalik - Twin Tackle of Private Equity at Kinderhook (EP.416)
- ▶ 11:27 Chris and Rob Michalik He says, Rob, KKR wants to do a buyout of Quaker Oats.
David Eichhorn - Serving Clients and Reducing Risk at NISA (EP.403)
- ▶ 6:07 Ted Seides David Rubenstein, Pete Stavros from KKR,
Dan Tennebaum - The Case for India at India Capital (EP.387)
- ▶ 40:30 Dan Tannenbaum So something considerably short of, I don't know, KKR sending six McKinsey teams to crawl over a deal for a year, but an unusually intensive piece of research for Indian public markets.
Cliff Asness - Simple Investing is Hard (EP.385)
- ▶ 5:30 Ted Seides That heavyweight is Pete Stavros, the co-head of Global Private Equity at KKR.
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.
Marcia Page – Corn Capitalist with a Velvet Hammer at Värde and MPowered (EP.355)
- ▶ 16:55 Marcia Page When RJR was acquired by KKR, literally one of the largest LBOs at the time, they had one of the most complex capital structures that I had ever seen.
Classic Deal: HCA – Chris Gordon, Bain Capital (EP.335)
- ▶ 29:31 Chris Gordon We've always found that to be a pretty good dynamic for us, and we found the KKR team and certainly the Frisk family and the Merrill Lynch team to be really good partners in all of this because nobody was really showing up with a lot of
Kipp deVeer – The World of Private Credit at Ares (EP.329)
- ▶ 47:46 unnamed speaker It's Blue Owl, it's Golub Capital, it's KKR, Blackstone, Sixth Street, HPS, Apollo. 2 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.
Eric Resnick – Ski, Golf, and Vacation Investing at KSL (EP.322)
- ▶ 4:53 Ted Seides Our conversation covers KSL's beginning as a KKR portfolio company, the formation of KSL capital partners after a successful exit, and the case for travel and leisure investments.
- ▶ 33:48 Eric Resnick If you are at Blackstone and you're looking at a large multi-billion dollar deal, my guess is they could predict that KKR or Apollo or Bain or Carlisle are looking at that same deal at some level.
- ▶ 51:52 Eric Resnick That's certainly one thing that's different today than it would have been when we got started, because that was an advantage we lost when we were part of KKR.
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.
Charles Van Vleet – Thinking Differently with Pensions at Textron (Capital Allocators, EP. 283)
- ▶ 30:53 Charles Van Vleet Uh, I can graduate KKR the other day. 3 times in the scene
Michael Rees – Inside GP Stakes at Dyal Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.278)
- ▶ 35:42 Michael Rees And, you know, you see that from the very top on down, the sort of Blackstones and KKRs of the world have realized that scale has a huge benefit. 2 times in the scene
Matt Brown – Tidal Wave of Capital for Alternatives from Retail (Capital Allocators, EP.272)
- ▶ 26:50 Matt Brown We're also seeing firms, and most recently KKR just announced this.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Private Equity Deals Podcast
- ▶ 0:48 Ted Seides We've shared the first on this feed, a conversation with Pete Stavros, co-head of KKR's U.S. private equity business, about a recently exited portfolio company, CHI Overhead Doors.
- ▶ 1:46 Ted Seides Why don't we do the elevator version on KKR? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:10 Pete Stavros We don't want to do a slash and burn thing or something that's not going to stick, so we want the capability to be embedded in the organization, but we do want the results, and if you want to do it yourself, or if you want to go hire…
- ▶ 24:48 Ted Seides And yet through all of this, it came out in the news that this has been one of the most successful deals that KKR has done in a long, long time in terms of rate of return.
- ▶ 35:06 unnamed speaker Fast forward to when I got into a leadership position at KKR, I started experimenting with broad forms of ownership. 2 times in the scene
Allan Jean-Baptiste and Marco DeMeireles – Under-covered Venture Markets and Teams at Ansa Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.36)
- ▶ 5:03 Alan Jean-Baptiste After Capital G, I joined KKR as a founding investor for their growth equity strategy.
Mario Giannini – View from the Top of Private Equity at Hamilton Lane (Capital Allocators, EP.262)
- ▶ 14:45 Mario Giannini I don't think people should underestimate the genius, really, in some cases, when you look at a Blackstone, you look at a KKR, you look at an EQT, it's not easy.
- ▶ 17:33 Mario Giannini When you look at KKR, there's two people.
Ben Forman – Opportunities in DeFi (EP.256, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.03)
- ▶ 4:10 Ted Seides TPG, and KKR.
- ▶ 13:00 Ben Forman In 2016, I was at KKR and the firm had an innovation council in house. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:32 Ben Forman Our performance was great on a relative basis, but not great on an absolute basis, and I came to him for advice, and I remember him saying, look, when I started private equity, or when I started KKR in the 19 seventies, the term private… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:23 Ben Forman The way I look at our research process is we look at tokens not dissimilar from the way someone at KKR or TPG, the way we would evaluate a company.
Marcos Veremis – Allocator's Perspective on Blockchain (EP.254, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.01)
- ▶ 18:43 Marcos Veremis There was folks like Ben Foreman from Parafy Traditional Finance, right, KKR.
David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
- ▶ 17:38 David Rosenthal Everybody's like, I want to go work at Carlisle or KKR.
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.
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…
Wylie Fernyhough – Private Equity Stakes (Capital Allocators, EP.208)
- ▶ 26:05 Wylie Fernyhough The type of product mix and maybe how the organization is run might be slightly different, whether it's, I believe KKR recently made a slight change and is maybe allocating a higher percentage of their management fees to the public…
- ▶ 30:40 Wylie Fernyhough That is probably the first thing that LPs ask me every time we discuss how to think about the stake space, and, and I think there's this notion that these are highly illiquid assets, but in reality it's not quite true, and I would say they… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:54 Wylie Fernyhough And I think in general, we might see that second wave of private equity manager going public that we saw in the early to late 2000 where Blackstone, KKR, the household names all went public.
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)
- ▶ 17:27 Doug Ostrover But as I think about the culture we were trying to create, I think we saw an opportunity to create a culture that we could give people, our investors, the same experience, the investment experience as a Blackstone, a KKR, a Carlyle,…
- ▶ 24:07 Doug Ostrover I brought in Mark Lipschultz, who was at KKR.
- ▶ 27:37 Doug Ostrover So a lot of firms, KKR, Blackstone, a lot of firms are active in that.
Private Equity Masters 4: David Rubenstein – Carlyle Group (Capital Allocators, EP.203)
- ▶ 9:37 David Rubenstein The most prominent of them were Forsman Little, Colbert Kravis Roberts, Gibbons Green was another one, and I think there may have been a few others, but basically, they were small firms, and so I didn't really think much of it other than…
- ▶ 18:09 David Rubenstein Blackstone, KKR, Apollo, among others are all, have multiple funds out there.
- ▶ 22:40 David Rubenstein Blackstone, KKR, and Apollo really hadn't built international businesses, honestly, at that time, as we were beginning to do it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 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. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:48 David Rubenstein Blackstone, Carlyle, KKR, Apollo have all had people leave and start very successful private equity firms.
Private Equity Master 2: John Connaughton – Bain Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.201)
- ▶ 41:22 John Connaughton You know, our mezzanine business is mostly mid-market, and so we haven't actually seen that, and certainly relative to the people that want us to finance them, it's so typical these days to see KKR Financial and
- ▶ 46:01 John Connaughton KK, all these players, they've done an amazing job.
Innovation in Private Markets 2: Mark Johnson – New Leaders in Private Equity at Astra (Capital Allocators, EP.193)
- ▶ 44:25 Mark Johnson We were, we were partnered with KKR.
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 4:21 Ted Seides Prior to joining SoftBank, Jeff worked at 16 companies, including 11 years as CEO of Shutterfly, four years in the early days of eBay, four as a special industry advisor to KKR,
- ▶ 20:02 Jeff Hausenbold and I was an advisor to KKR and Kleiner Perkins and an EIR at Sutter Hill, helped out TPG a lot.
Private Equity Masters: Paul Salem – Providence Equity Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.175)
- ▶ 9:30 Paul Salem And when I was at Prue, I happened to be lucky enough to be working with a guy who was funding KKR, Blackstone, and then over in London, Electric Handover and Schroeder Ventures.
- ▶ 20:20 Paul Salem We would never get the person who got the job offer from Blackstone or KKR, and we actually liked that.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 4: Joel Wittenberg – A Prescription for the Future (Capital Allocators, EP.154)
- ▶ 27:46 Joel Wittenberg Some of the names allow us, they allow us to use the names KKR,
Adam Fisher – Blending Global Macro and Real Estate at Commonwealth Asset Management (First Meeting, EP.21)
- ▶ 9:27 Adam Fisher You know, I sent letters to, I don't know, I'm sure everyone, KKR, Apollo, this guy, that guy, no one really took me up in the offer because to be fair, all of us look at this now that I'm in this seat is yeah, let them go work at like one…
Sustainable Investing 7: Tony Davis – Hedge Fund Perspective at Inherent Group (Capital Allocators, EP.145)
- ▶ 16:49 Tony Davis We've invested in funds like Ecosystem Integrity Partners or KKR Impact.
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.
Scott Kupor - Andreessen Horowitz (First Meeting EP.07)
- ▶ 46:29 Scott Kupor There are even like the traditional buyout guys like a TPG or KKR are doing activities there.
Ash Williams – Florida SBA's Reigning Chief (Capital Allocator, EP.104)
- ▶ 30:06 Ash Williams He had worked for Jerry Kohlberg as Jerry's analyst when Jerry left KKR, and he had started a fund about five years prior, which had earned net returns of around 25% annualized over that time.
Jen Prosek – Branding an Asset Management Firm (Capital Allocators, EP.81)
- ▶ 31:10 Jennifer Prosek Like, wouldn't this chief marketing officer for AQR want to know the chief marketing officer for Cerberus and chief marketing officer at Kcare?
- ▶ 38:47 Jennifer Prosek Like, if you look at KKR's track record on ESG and corporate social responsibility, it's like 12 years long. 4 times in the scene
Josh Wolfe – Seeing the Lux (Capital Allocators, EP.65)
- ▶ 51:03 Josh Wolfe You also have KKR, Apollo, Carlyle, TPG, that are actively doing investments in much earlier stage things.
Peter Troob – Monkey Business in High Yield (Capital Allocators, EP.59)
- ▶ 25:00 Peter Troob Is Apollo and KKR and Oak Tree, what's the difference?
John Pfeffer - Crypto for Institutions (Capital Allocators, EP.54)
- ▶ 14:19 John Pfeffer And because of my, my years at KKR, I have the good fortune of knowing a lot of the great GPs in the space and, and therefore the opportunity to invest in, in their funds. 3 times in the scene
Kip McDaniel – CIO Whisperer (Capital Allocators, EP.20)
- ▶ 40:53 Kip McDaniel I got more money than God, and I got the smartest guys sitting in Apollo and KKR's office in New York.