David Rubenstein
David Mark Rubenstein is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist who co-founded the Carlyle Group in 1987 and serves as its Co-Founder and Co-Chairman. He is the principal owner, Chairman, and CEO of Major League Baseball's Baltimore Orioles, having purchased the team in March 2024. He is best known for building Carlyle into one of the world's largest private equity firms and for his extensive philanthropic work, including serving as Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Gallery of Art.
“I don't think Bill Gates, when he started, think he was going to build what he built or Mark Zuckerberg or all these others.”
Source→“I said, I'm not going to invest in that. It's a dating company because the original idea was simply to help people get dates at Harvard.”
Source→“Our guy said, we don't want a piece of an illiquid company, a startup... That stock's probably worth $14 billion now.”
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