Hunter Hopcroft
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537 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Hunter Hopcroft’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it was this innovation that sparked the private equity LBO boom to begin with.
High yield bonds were such a boon for Drexel that Drexel is tied to the mast of just Milkin and high-yield bonds in general.
So when Milken goes down, down goes Drexel and down goes the high-yield market.
So
If you think of some of the other foundings of alternative asset managers, Blackstone or KKR, it was very entrepreneurial.
They wanted to go out on their own.
Apollo obviously was entrepreneurial, but it's a little bit different.
Apollo was formed opportunistically.
There was this vacuum left by the collapse of Drexel after the high-yield bond market collapse.
And Leon Black specifically saw an opportunity to step in to a lot of really
Yeah.
So Black was the most senior of the Apollo founders at Drexel.
He was head of MA and worked really closely with Milken.
Mark Rowan, who's now the CEO, was actually just an associate at Drexel, but he was in the corporate finance department focusing on bankruptcies and restructuring.
Josh Harris is the youngest of the three, but he was also an MA.
This has been described as a dysfunctional family for all that means.
Leon Black is known as a
Incredibly tough negotiator.
Mark Rowan, much more professorial
much more even keeled.
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