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6 facts from 5 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2018
Airbnb hired a CFO who had been CFO of Blackstone and COO of Merrill Lynch in 2015, and he left in early 2018, putting the planned IPO in doubt.
“a big name CFO, Lawrence Tossey, who had been the CFO of Blackstone and the COO of Merrill Lynch before coming out to San Francisco and joining Airbnb.”
2023
Cvent is a hospitality and event software company with about 30,000 customers and 5,500 employees, and has been part of the Blackstone portfolio since about 2023.
“Cvent is a leading SaaS hospitality and event software company, about 30,000 customers, 5, 500 employees, over 6,000 agents, and since about 2023, we're part of the Blackstone portfolio.”
Undated
Schultz says the vacant former post office in Milan's Cordusio Square, which became the Italian roastery site, was owned by Blackstone.
“Turns out the owner of the space is Blackstone.”
Undated
Fehling says Anthropic, OpenAI, Blackstone and another firm each announced their own AI deployment company with private equity backing, totalling more than $5 billion of fresh capital.
“They all announced their own deployment company with the, you know, big private equity houses, roughly more than $5 billion of fresh capital”
Undated
Fehling says Blackstone has described the scarcity of implementation engineers as one of the most significant bottlenecks to enterprise AI adoption.
“scarcity of these implementation engineers I is one of the most significant bottlenecks to the adoption of A I in enterprises”
Undated
Paige Cognetti said Rob Bresnahan eagerly announced a $25 billion Blackstone investment in northeastern Pennsylvania data centers.
“there was 25 billion dollar investment from Blackstone that Rob Bresnahan was only too eager to announce”
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