A Wide-ranging Interview with The Carlyle Group's David Rubenstein
Our 500th episode features a wide-ranging with David Rubenstein, The Carlyle Group's co-founder and co-Executive Chairman. We discuss: David’s experience growing up in a blue-collar family in Baltimore His experience working for the Carter administration Why the Carter administration was viewed as unsuccessful David’s decision to leave government and the legal profession to start Carlyle How David and a partner came up with the firm’s name How Carlyle got prominent political figures to join the firm, including presidents and prime ministers David’s decision to diversify the business and go global David’s rationale for taking the firm public David’s philanthropic endeavors Why he has decided to give all of his money away Why he now stays out of politics Among a variety of other topics. ___________________________________ This episode is sponsored by Zoho and Sykes