Finance
Steve Schwarzman on Entrepreneurship, China, and the New Wall Street
The Blackstone co-founder says that when he started out, “the phones never rang.”
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“There is no net,” says Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman. He spoke with Carol Massar and Jason Kelly about his new book on his career.
● Co-founded the giant private equity firm with Pete Peterson in 1985
● Worked at Lehman Brothers in the 1970s and ’80s
● A prominent Trump adviser, he’s also cultivated ties in China
● His new book is What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence