• "Public and private, notwithstanding that those two market participants or groups of market participants from time to time are like different religions almost and don't like each other or like to debate and kind of throw rocks at each other, they're just tools to really implement an overall policy view or a portfolio view." - Stephen McLennan [00:07:30]…

• "I think the next decade is moving from balance sheet arbitrage, income statement arbitrage, and tinkering to total cultural transformation." - Pete Stavros [00:00:13]

• "When Henry and George started KKR in 1976, it was really with an eye towards creating a different type of firm that was more collaborative than a traditional Wall Street investment…

• "I'm a big believer that this AI is a very unique technology... but it's not to say that things can't get overvalued and I think we're at a time in digital where there is a little bit of in pockets maybe big pockets overvaluation." - Mike Dorrell [04:40]

• "What we're trying to do is we're trying to give investors a more boring way to play that…

This episode was recorded on July 23rd, 2026.

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