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This is Masters in Business with Barry Rittholz on Bloomberg Radio.

This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest.

Joe Barada is the global head of private equity at PE Giant Blackstone,

where he has worked since 1998.

I found this to be a fascinating conversation because Joe's career

has very much paralleled the growth of private equity.

When he began, PE was a little bit of a niche boutique sort of investment.

And over the ensuing 25 years, it has grown to be really a major asset class with giant opportunities

that have been expressed by then small, now very large companies of which Blackstone is one of the largest.

He is very familiar with everything from M&A to credit to real estate on and on

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