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David Rubenstein passed on an opportunity to invest $30,000 in Facebook's early stages; that initial investment, made by Eduardo Saverin, is now worth an estimated $50 billion.
After being forced out of Apple for 12 years, Steve Jobs returned to transform the company from near-bankruptcy to a valuation of approximately $4 trillion.
David Rubenstein's vision for The Carlyle Group was to innovate in private equity by creating a multi-product firm (buyouts, growth capital, real estate, debt) and globalizing its operations, which was unprecedented for an American PE firm at the time.
The Carlyle Group was founded in Washington D.C. with a strategy to focus on companies heavily affected by the federal government, such as those in the aerospace and defense sectors.
David Rubenstein believes that many of the world's best investors come from middle-class backgrounds, as this often instills a greater hunger and drive compared to those from wealthy families.
David Rubenstein was one of the original 41 members of The Giving Pledge, an initiative started by Bill Gates.
The Carlyle Group owned stock in Amazon in its early days but sold it quickly, missing out on the company's subsequent growth.
Jamie Dimon built J.P. Morgan into the world's most powerful bank after his previous bank, Bank One, was acquired by it.
When KKR executed the landmark RJR Nabisco buyout in 1989, the firm had only about seven to nine employees.
David Rubenstein asserts that Russian President Vladimir Putin uses a version of the history of Russia and Ukraine, which many scholars consider inaccurate, to justify his military actions in Ukraine.
David Rubenstein purchased the last privately-owned copy of the Magna Carta for $21 million to prevent it from leaving the United States and has placed it on permanent loan to the National Archives.
David Rubenstein provided the funding to repair the Washington Monument after it was damaged in an earthquake, bypassing the congressional appropriations process.