What David Rubenstein has said about Private equity
1 quote · 1 episode · Sep 14, 2026
David Rubenstein, American businessman, co-founder of private equity firm The Carlyle Group, philanthropist and principal owner of the Baltimore Orioles, has been quoted on Private equity once in 1 episode of My First Million, most recently on September 14, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Rubenstein says Carlyle's novel approach was running multiple fund types and then globalizing them.
“I came up with the idea of having a buyout fund, a growth fund, a real estate fund, a debt fund, and I had multiple funds”
My First Million: David Rubenstein: We took $5M and turned it into $500B (Sep 14, 2026) · Listen from 9:15
Episodes
David Rubenstein: We took $5M and turned it into $500BMy First Million · Sep 14, 2026 · 47 min
Sam Parr interviews Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein about building a $500 billion private equity firm, missing out on Amazon, historic documents and American history.
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