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Rubenstein: Bill Simon made roughly $80M on $1M Gibson Greetings buyout
“In his case, it got an enormous amount of attention because he, in 18 months, he put in roughly a million dollars. I'm not sure how much he had left in it after the fees and everything, but for his million dollars or a little bit less than a million dollars, h…”
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…”