David Rubenstein: Defining Great Investors, Guiding Presidents and Preserving History

Hi everybody and welcome to In Good Company and today I'm here with David Rubinstein. David is the founder and chairman of the Carla Group, one of the biggest private equity firms, and he also hosts the David Rubinstein Show, where he interviews prominent leaders in business and so on. And earlier this year I had the pleasure of being on your show. So this is like revenge time actually, David. Well thank you for inviting me and you were great on my show and anytime you want to come back please let me know.

You sometimes talk about people being like like brands. So what's the David Rubenstein brand like? I'm not quite sure what it is. Um maybe it's just too busy to do anything very well, because I'm doing so many different things that I don't really have as good a brand as I maybe would like to have, but the truth is, um, I spent thirty years, I'm now still in private equity, I spent thirty years building a firm.

It became one of the larger private equity firms, but I find that I'm better known now for the TV shows I do or the interviewing I do or for my philanthropy. I have a lot of uh philanthropic things I've done and people talk to me more about that than anything I've done in the investment world. So I guess my brand is that somebody that can't do anything well and I do many different things, but none of them that well as I would like to do. Well, we're going to go through it and you for sure do a lot of things well.

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