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Spotify's pre-IPO convertible debt from Sixth Street carried a $25B valuation cap
“And that came up with, it was a convertible debt instrument. It had a cap. I think the cap was at twenty five billion dollars. It had some, a current yield component.”
Alan Waxman Jul 15, 2025 ▶ 36:59 The Investment Firm That Can 'Do Anything' | Sixth Street CEO Alan Waxman · Invest Like The Best
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Blackstone acquired Sixth Street-backed data center operator AirTrunk for roughly $16 billion
“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.”
Alan Waxman Jul 15, 2025 ▶ 56:08 The Investment Firm That Can 'Do Anything' | Sixth Street CEO Alan Waxman · Invest Like The Best
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Alan Waxman: Goldman's Special Situations Group peaked at $25B in assets
“And that group was the largest principal investing Business at Goldman. It was the firm's balance sheet at its peak. I think we're like twenty five billion dollars of the firm's balance sheet.”
Alan Waxman Jul 15, 2025 ▶ 3:04 The Investment Firm That Can 'Do Anything' | Sixth Street CEO Alan Waxman · Invest Like The Best
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Goldman Sachs' middle-market direct lending business has scaled to over $50 billion
“By the way, that business is now, I think it's over, you know, Julian Salisbury, one of my partners told me it's over fifty billion dollars now.”
Alan Waxman Jul 15, 2025 ▶ 1:11:08 The Investment Firm That Can 'Do Anything' | Sixth Street CEO Alan Waxman · Invest Like The Best
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