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Mar 20, 2018 · In 1985, Peterson and Mr Schwarzman founded a firm that hinted at their names: petros is the Greek work for stone and schwarz means black in German. By various accounts the pair made an odd couple.
Oct 2, 2019 · In the second of two parts excerpted from his new memoir, Stephen Schwarzman details his efforts to raise a $1 billion fund — and the response from Pete Peterson, his partner, to an embarrassing ...
- Stephen Schwarzman
Blackstone was founded in 1985 by Peter G. Peterson and Stephen A. Schwarzman with US$400,000 (equivalent to $1.1 million in 2023) in seed capital. [3]: 45–56 [4] The founders derived their firm's name from their names: "Schwarz" is German for "black"; "Peter", "Petros", or "Petra" (Πέτρος and πετρα, the masculine and feminine rendering of the word, respectively) means "stone" or ...
Dec 15, 2021 · At Lehman Brothers, under chairman and CEO Peterson, Schwarzman quickly rose to become head of mergers and acquisitions. In 1985, the two men left Lehman to found Blackstone, with each putting up ...
- Jonathan Kandell
- Stephen Schwarzman's Early Life and Education
- The Start of Stephen Schwarzman's Career
- The Beginning of Blackstone Group
- Entering The Private Equity World
- Expanded Business Segments and IPO
- The Bottom Line
Schwarzman says, ‘‘I stopped [studying math] in the eleventh grade. Calculus, for me, was way out of reach. I am more in the add, subtract, divide and multiply category, which worked and still does for me.’’ With no interest in corporate finance, Schwarzman took social science-related courses like psychology and sociology during his time at Yale. W...
After graduating from Yale in 1969, Schwarzman managed to get a job with an institutional asset management firm called Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ). At the time, the company had just been listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Now defunct, it was co-founded by Bill Donaldson who also founded the Yale School of Management. Schwarzman developed...
With a Harvard MBA under his belt in 1972, Schwarzman took on a job at the then-independent investment giant, Lehman Brothers. By the age of 31, he had become the Managing Director of Global Mergers and Acquisitions for Lehman. Following American Express Company’s (AXP) acquisition of Lehman Brothers in 1984, Schwarzman left the firm. He approached...
Schwarzman successfully raised $800 million in 1987 for Blackstone's first private equity fund, Blackstone Capital Partners I, L.P. Prudential Financial Inc. (PRU), and General Motors Company (GM) were two of the fund's largest investors. The money raised was used to purchase companies using a strategy called leveraged buyouts(LBOs). Private equity...
Since launching his firm's first private equity fund in 1988, Schwarzman has significantly expanded Blackstone's business segments. The company continues to provide mergers and acquisitions advice as well as private equity fund management. In addition, Blackstone manages several funds of hedge funds and real estate investment partnerships. In 2012,...
Stephen Schwarzman became a billionaire by managing money for other people. Dissatisfied by the level of transparency offered by the stock market, Schwarzman co-founded The Blackstone Group, a private equity firm, in the mid-1980s. Today, Blackstone is one of the world's largest alternative asset managers. The company collects fees for managing hun...
Nov 11, 2019 · Schwarzman could have said more about his own future. He writes quite candidly about other executive moves, including Peterson’s retirement in 2008 (he died last year). “Firms lose momentum ...
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Stephen Allen Schwarzman (born February 14, 1947) is an American businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of the Blackstone Group, a global private equity firm he established in 1985 with Peter G. Peterson. Schwarzman was chairman of former President Donald Trump 's Strategic and Policy Forum. [ 1 ]
