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Owl Rock Capital

also referred to as: owl rock

includes Owl Rock Capital Corporation

12 statements across 2 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 26, 2021 by Doug Ostrover · said 8 times in 4 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Everything said about Owl Rock Capital, oldest first

Jul 26, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Owl Rock Has Completed Over $30 Billion in Sponsor Financings
“We cover today over 700 private equity firms. We've worked with well over 500. We've done over thirty billion dollars of financings.”
Doug Ostrover Jul 26, 2021 ▶ 27:10 Private Equity Masters 6 – Doug Ostrover – Blue Owl Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.205)
Jul 26, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Owl Rock Reviews Up to 1,600 Deals Annually From Top Sponsors
“From that roughly 152 hundred firms, we're probably seeing 15, 1600 deals a year.”
Doug Ostrover Jul 26, 2021 ▶ 34:34 Private Equity Masters 6 – Doug Ostrover – Blue Owl Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.205)
Jul 26, 2021 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Every Owl Rock Software Loan Is Meeting or Beating Underwriting Targets
“Every single software loan that we've made is hitting or exceeding its underwriting case, and that's coming through the pandemic.”
Doug Ostrover Jul 26, 2021 ▶ 31:07 Private Equity Masters 6 – Doug Ostrover – Blue Owl Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.205)
Jul 26, 2021 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Few Direct Lenders Could Hold $500M Loans When Owl Rock Launched
“When you got to the top of the pyramid, the number of firms that could actually make loans of two, three, four, five hundred million and hold it was relatively small.”
Doug Ostrover Jul 26, 2021 ▶ 22:06 Private Equity Masters 6 – Doug Ostrover – Blue Owl Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.205)
Jul 26, 2021
Disclosure
Owl Rock Assigns Independent Covenant Specialists to Every Deal
“Every deal we do, we have someone who is focused exclusively on covenants. They don't talk to any PE firms. They are just trying to understand if things go wrong, what is the art of the possible?”
Doug Ostrover Jul 26, 2021 ▶ 33:26 Private Equity Masters 6 – Doug Ostrover – Blue Owl Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.205)
Jul 26, 2021
Assertion Partly supported
Owl Rock Launched With $12 Billion of Total Investing Firepower
“We raised six billion dollars. We use a turn of leverage, so we had twelve billion A firepower when we launched.”
Doug Ostrover Jul 26, 2021 ▶ 25:01 Private Equity Masters 6 – Doug Ostrover – Blue Owl Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.205)
Jul 26, 2021 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Owl Rock Pioneered Institutional Permanent Capital for Direct Lending
“When we went out to raise permanent capital, it had only been raised retail. Nobody had really done it institutionally.”
Doug Ostrover Jul 26, 2021 ▶ 41:38 Private Equity Masters 6 – Doug Ostrover – Blue Owl Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.205)
Jul 26, 2021 positive
Disclosure
Owl Rock Founders Reinvested 100% of Dyal Stake Proceeds Into Funds
“And by the way, we didn't take any money out. We could have. They offered that. But we said, listen, we're raising this money to put it all into our funds. And that's what we've done with it. And today, all of us have the bulk of our liquid net worth invested …”
Doug Ostrover Jul 26, 2021 ▶ 45:42 Private Equity Masters 6 – Doug Ostrover – Blue Owl Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.205)
Jul 26, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Owl Rock Had Zero Voluntary Employee Departures in Its First Six Years
“We have today About 300 people, and we have not had one person in six years voluntarily leave, not one.”
Doug Ostrover Jul 26, 2021 ▶ 19:13 Private Equity Masters 6 – Doug Ostrover – Blue Owl Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.205)
Jul 26, 2021 bullish
Opinion
Owl Rock Is a Top Software Lender Alongside SVB
“I think today we are probably, I don't know if we're the largest, but we are one of the largest dedicated lenders to the software space. We have 22 people focused on software, half in New York, half out in Menlo Park. So, I mean, clearly Silicon Valley Bank is…”
Doug Ostrover Jul 26, 2021 ▶ 29:53 Private Equity Masters 6 – Doug Ostrover – Blue Owl Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.205)
May 15, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Clarke notes the majority of early Owl Rock employees were back-office
“He'd also put a tremendous amount of resources in a back office. That was when I got there, the majority of the employees.”
James Clark May 15, 2025 ▶ 20:04 James Clarke – Building Enduring Partnerships at Blue Owl (EP.445)
May 15, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Clarke notes direct lending was viewed as episodic, $50M mandates in 2017
“At the time, direct lending was considered more of a strategic allocation. It was an allocation that people did episodically. There was dislocation spreads. They tapped into a fund, and then they got out when there was a normalization. You never saw these big …”
James Clark May 15, 2025 ▶ 18:58 James Clarke – Building Enduring Partnerships at Blue Owl (EP.445)
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