Hunter Hopcroft
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Even before these stories started coming to the headlines.
Josh Harris is presumed to be the heir apparent and the next CEO.
But at this point, Harris has already pulled in a lot of different directions.
He's buying the 76ers, he's buying the New Jersey Devils.
Eventually he comes to own the Washington Commanders, previously the Redskins.
So Josh Harris is very much involved, but also he's starting to do a lot of stuff on his own.
And basically, based on the FT reporting, I don't know if we'll ever know what happened internally in these discussions, but
After the allegations and headlines about Leon Black come to light, Harris becomes a very vocal critic of Black, and apparently that ices him out at the firm and leaves an opening for Rowan to ascend, which ultimately happens.
Josh Harris steps down, stays on the board, but Black is out and Rowan ascends to the CEO position.
Well, I would just be speculating as well, but I also think some of the reason
Harris ultimately doesn't ascend is if we go back to the personalities of these founders.
Josh Harris's reputation was as a real deal guy.
And I think his attraction to these sports deals was that this is the type of
deal he wanted to be doing, and Apollo was increasingly moving in this credit direction that wasn't really what his background and what his appetite was for.
And so as Rowan ascends, it becomes clear that the firm is going to continue to make this shift towards a credit focus.
And so I think Josh Harris is just the deal guy.
He's attracted to these big acquisitions, which Apollo was doing less and less of.
I do think we need to again to keep drawing the parallels to these top tier alt managers that were all founded basically in the seventies and eighties and
have an original old guard that is starting to come to the end of the careers.
And again, this is a business that relies so much on reputation and talent and how respectively they've handled succession planning.
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