TPG Capital - History and Notable Investments

History and Notable Investments

History of private equity and venture capital

Early history (Origins of modern private equity) • The 1980s (LBO boom) • The 1990s (LBO bust and the VC bubble) • The 2000s (Dot-com bubble to the credit crunch)

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There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.”
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