Henry Kravis: KKR, History Of Private Equity and Surviving The Financial Crash

A lecture and Q&A with billionaire private equity titan and co-founder of KKR, Henry Kravis. In this lecture, Henry discusses founding KKR and the history of Private Equity, with detailed discussion of leverage through booms and busts. Henry also talks about how KKR survived the financial crash, why companies want to go private and taking KKR public. 📚 Books on Henry Kravis and KKR are located at the bottom of the description❗

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Video Segments:
0:00 Introduction
1:35 Beginnings of Private Equity
2:38 Slowdown to growth periods
5:45 Leverage throughout career
11:05 Growth of Private Equity
11:56 Why companies want to go private
14:21 Banks closing
19:19 Starting KKR
24:50 Values and culture
28:50 Where we are today
36:42 Start of Q&A
37:24 Time at CMC?
39:33 Effect of deleveraging?
45:50 The effects of KKR going public?
49:45 Asia financial crisis?
51:50 Tax interest legislation?
55:20 When does it pay to walk away?
59:23 Thoughts on fair value accounting? Where do banks go?

Henry Kravis and KKR Books 🇺🇸📈 (affiliate link)
The New Financial Capitalists:http://bit.ly/NewFinancialCapitalists
Merchants of Debt:http://bit.ly/MerchantsofDebt
Barbarians At The Gate:http://bit.ly/BarbariansGate
The Money Machine:http://bit.ly/MoneyMachineKKR

Interview Date: 3rd October, 2008
Event: Claremont McKenna College
Original Image Source:http://bit.ly/HKravisPic2

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