Blackstone

“Easy to look at it now. They have a four hundred fifty billion dollar credit fund. I was having dinner with the heads of one of the banks in New York, and we were talking about Blackstone and I, and Steve in particular, and I said, would you have ever thought …”

“Airtrunk, which we can talk about, because that's a company we started, literally started the white sheet of paper, which is actually just got bought Blackstone for, I think sixteen billion dollars or something like that.”

“Now that the Apollos and Blackstones and KKRs of the world you know, I think in a lot of cases the leveraged buyout is a very small part of what they do today, but I do think it's still like in the core culture.”