Blackstone

“So if you're a private equity firm, if you're Apollo, or Blackstone, or BlackRock, or whoever it is, right, and you're this big entity the people within your firm can't really leave and compete with you, because there's so much institutional infrastructure aro…”

“I sometimes joke that the big AI companies should become LBO shops. And what they can do is they can partner with KKR or Blackstone and all they get is the data. KKR and Blackstone pride the capital, get all the returns. Fine. But all the data comes back to, y…”

“Anthropic is running a parallel deal with Blackstone, Hellman, Friedman, and Permira. One billion common equity, no guaranteed return, more of a Palantir style consulting venture.”

“The sandwich chain, Jersey Mike, filed for IPO today. It's looking for a twelve billion dollar valuation after being acquired by Blackstone last year for eight billion.”