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    Private equity in the 2000s represents one of the major growth periods in the history of private equity and venture capital. Within the broader private...
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  • Private equity (PE) is capital stock in a private company that does not offer stock to the general public. In the field of finance, private equity is offered...
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    In the 2010s Private equity massively grew. As of 2019, there were nearly 7,000 private equity firms within the United States, nearly $2.5T globally in...
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    Private equity in the 1990s relates to one of the major periods in the history of private equity and venture capital. Within the broader private equity...
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    Private equity in the 1980s relates to one of the major periods in the history of private equity and venture capital. Within the broader private equity...
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    In the 2020s private equity firms needed to respond to the COVID-19 recession. In the early 2020s private equity funding exploded. Private equity firm...
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  • In finance, the private-equity secondary market (also often called private-equity secondaries or secondaries) refers to the buying and selling of pre-existing...
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  • Eli M. Black (category Polish emigrants to the United States)
    controlled the United Brands Company. His son Leon Black co-founded the private equity firm Apollo Global Management. Born Elihu Menashe Blachowitz in Poland...
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  • Alec Gores (category Israeli emigrants to the United States)
    Following the acquisition, Gores began acquiring and operating non-core businesses. In 1987 he founded The Gores Group, a private equity firm that has...
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  • investment in private equity refers to an important component of pension fund investing known as the Endowment Model (also referred to as The Yale Model...
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  • Thumbnail for History of private equity and venture capital
    The history of private equity, venture capital, and the development of these asset classes has occurred through a series of boom-and-bust cycles since...
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    professionals, he ranked 22nd in 2008, 9th in 2021, and 36th in 2022. Botha was born in Pretoria, South Africa, and at the age of six he moved to Cape Town...
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  • Ivan Boesky (category 1986 crimes in the United States)
    prominent role in an insider trading scandal in the mid-1980s. He pleaded guilty, was fined a record $100 million, served three years in prison, and became...
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    companies in the United States. As the founder of Sequoia Capital, he has been referred to as the "grandfather of Silicon Valley venture capital". The Computer...
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  • Tony Ressler (category Private equity and venture capital investors)
    billionaire businessman. He co-founded the private equity firms Apollo Global Management in 1990, and Ares Management in 1997. As of May 2024, his net worth...
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  • James Hanson, Baron Hanson (category Deaths from cancer in England)
    under-managed businesses in sectors such as batteries, locks and safes. He was knighted in 1976 and created Baron Hanson, of Edgerton in the County of West Yorkshire...
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    The early history of private equity relates to one of the major periods in the history of private equity and venture capital. Within the broader private...
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  • Nelson Peltz (category Private equity and venture capital investors)
    alternative investment management fund based in New York. He is non-executive chairman of Wendy's Company, Sysco, and The Madison Square Garden Company. He is...
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  • Jerome Kohlberg Jr. (category Private equity and venture capital investors)
    and investor. He was an early pioneer in the private equity and leveraged buyout industries founding private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and...
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    Douglas Leone (category Italian emigrants to the United States)
    Capital in 1988, became a managing partner in 1996, and then the global managing partner in 2012. In 2017, Forbes named him a top-10 investor in the technology...
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    Lin was the COO, CFO, and Chairman of Zappos.com until 2010. Lin was born in Taiwan. At the age of six or seven, his parents immigrated to the New York...
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  • hollywoodreporter.com. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved October 16, 2021. Associated Press (September 4, 2012). "Snyder private equity firm selling Dick Clark...
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    Arthur Rock (category Private equity and venture capital investors)
    Software Development Forum 1999 Private Equity Hall of Fame 1999 Lifetime Achievement in Entrepreneurship & Innovation Award of the University of California...
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    Michael Moritz (category Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
    original on 7 June 2015. Retrieved 4 June 2015. "Google Receives $25 Million in Equity Funding", Google press release, 7 June 1999. "Google investor to earn...
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  • William S. Price III (category Private equity and venture capital investors)
    of the three co-founders and a partner emeritus of the private equity firm TPG Capital, formerly known as the Texas Pacific Group. Price was born in Los...
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  • Theodore J. Forstmann (category Private equity and venture capital investors)
    13, 1940 – November 20, 2011) was one of the founding partners of Forstmann Little & Company, a private equity firm, and chairman and CEO of IMG, a global...
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  • Georges Doriot (category French emigrants to the United States)
    Mexico Campus in 2020 with the goal of educating leaders and building companies. History of private equity and venture capital Private equity Leveraged buyout...
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    com. The firm's 1996 fund capitalized at $150 million with two investors: SOFTBANK Technology Ventures and Chase Capital Partners, the private-equity arm...
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  • H. Irving Grousbeck (category Private equity and venture capital investors)
    originating the concept of a search fund to make private equity investments in 1984. In 1996, Grousbeck co-founded the Stanford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies...
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    Guy Hands (category Private equity and venture capital investors)
    He is most notable as the founder and former chairman of Terra Firma Capital Partners, one of the largest private equity firms in Europe. Hands also served...
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