TPG
How TPG grew from a single Texas buyout into a $200 billion alternatives giant spanning private equity, credit, and impact investing.
David Bonderman and James Coulter founded Texas Pacific Land Trust in nineteen ninety two. They bought troubled companies and didn't just install cost-cutting accountants. They installed operators. Former CEOs and industry veterans who would spend two years inside portfolio companies as interim executives, fixing operations from within. Traditional private equity hired consultants who recommended cuts. TPG hired executors who lived the cuts. They understood the business because they'd run similar ones. They knew which costs were fat and which cuts would scar. By the time they left, the company had transformed not just in numbers, but in structure.
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