Michael Woolhouse

I'm in my sixth year here at TPG where this is a career.

I don't plan to have another.

We have a huge market opportunity that we're going after.

We have a really amazing team, really amazing culture, both within our team and across the firm to go after it together.

If you go back to TPG's origins, this was way before my time when Jim Coulter and Dave Bonderman founded the business.

You have to remember that they initially came together in a family office with a Bass family in Texas.

And then left, uh, to form TPG.

And, um, so the business in a sense has entrepreneurial roots and somehow they have been able to.

translate those roots and the culture that's associated with being entrepreneurial into something at scale.

I can't take credit for it, but as I had the luxury, I suppose, at CPP to partner with TPG, I mean, I had the luxury of choice, but I'd known TPG for a long time.

I'd worked with the firm in various capacities.

over most of my time at CPP.

And I liked the people and liked the culture.

And so at least for me, it was very intentional to look to build this business from scratch, wanting to find the recipe that we talked about before, having the latitude to hire a team that was going to have the characteristics that I talked about, fun, hardworking, capable, and all of that.

But I also wanted to be able to leverage the capabilities of what's now kind of like big TPG, where we're one of the largest private equity houses on the planet.

And being able to take that experience and those skills and apply them into this entrepreneurial venture is pretty special and pretty amazing and very intentional, at least on my part.

If I could go back to the beginning, I'd say be less afraid to fail.

I might have said this earlier.

The only time I've really learned in my career, like really learned,

You can read a book.