Private equity
Subject in Investing
Private equity has come up in 2 episodes across 2 podcasts in TMT, including Modern Wisdom, My First Million. 3 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Tony RobbinsAmerican life and business coach, entrepreneur and bestselling author
Robbins says modern private equity creates value by improving businesses rather than breaking them up as in earlier eras.
“It's not like the old days where they find something, cut it all up and sell off its pieces. That was the original kind of private equity. Those days are over”
Modern Wisdom: The New Way For Ordinary People To Build Wealth - Tony Robbins - #1153 (Sep 21, 2026) · Listen from 38:22
Robbins argues ultra-high-net-worth investors hold the majority of their assets privately and that most companies are now private.
“If you look at the ultra high net worth people, 52% of their money is in private equity, private credit, private. Only 29% in the public markets”
Modern Wisdom: The New Way For Ordinary People To Build Wealth - Tony Robbins - #1153 (Sep 21, 2026) · Listen from 8:46
Robbins says he wrote Money Master the Game after 2008 because he believed the financial game looked rigged and wanted to test whether ordinary people could still win.
“Right now, the game seems like it's rigged and the average person thinks that they can't win. And I want to know, could they?”
Modern Wisdom: The New Way For Ordinary People To Build Wealth - Tony Robbins - #1153 (Sep 21, 2026) · Listen from 1:16
Christopher ZookAmerican investor, founder and chairman of CAZ Investments and co-author of The Holy Grail of Investing
Zook says his firm's operating principle is to assess the worst case first and trust the upside to follow.
“what's the worst case scenario? If we can live with that, the upside will take care of itself”
Modern Wisdom: The New Way For Ordinary People To Build Wealth - Tony Robbins - #1153 (Sep 21, 2026) · Listen from 49:20
David RubensteinAmerican businessman, co-founder of private equity firm The Carlyle Group, philanthropist and principal owner of the Baltimore Orioles
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
Podcasts
- Modern Wisdom · 1 episode
- My First Million · 1 episode
Episodes
The New Way For Ordinary People To Build Wealth - Tony Robbins - #1153Modern Wisdom · Sep 21, 2026 · 1 h 30 min
Tony Robbins and Christopher Zook tell Chris Williamson how ordinary investors can access private equity, sports teams and alternatives to diversify risk.
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.