The David Rubenstein Show

He created Saturday Night Live and turned it into a cultural icon. Lorne Michaels sat down with Carlyle Group co-Chairman David Rubenstein for a wide-ranging chat for Rubenstein's Bloomberg Television show Peer to Peer conversations. They discuss the show's evolution from its infancy with the original cast to now, how trends in comedy and censorship have changed and what it takes to create the sto...

In August of 2017, Dara Khosrowshahi became the CEO of Uber, succeeding founder Travis Kalanick. Khosrowshahi manages the company's fast-growing business in 63 countries around the world and leads a global team of more than 22,000 employees. Dara was previously the CEO of Expedia, which he grew into one of the world's largest online travel companies. Khosrowshahi spoke with David Rubenstein, co-fo...

Retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly stepped down as President Trump's chief of staff at the end of 2018, after more than a year spent managing the daily operations inside the West Wing. Kelly spent most of his entire adult life serving the nation. He wore a Marine uniform for more than 40 years. He was briefly retired before joining the Trump Administration.   See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...

We bring you another edition of Peer to Peer with David Rubenstein from Bloomberg Television. This week, David speaks with Gates Foundation Co-Founder Melinda Gates about  inequality in the U.S. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Anthony Kennedy's decision to retire from the Supreme Court was overshadowed by the intense confirmation battle that surrounded his eventual successor, Brett Kavanaugh, but it is important to remember Kennedy's contributions to the court as an associate justice since 1988. Kennedy recently sat down with Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein for an interview recorded at the University of Virgin...

Serving under four Presidents from both parties, Alan Greenspan holds the title as the second-longest serving Federal Reserve chairman, overseeing America's economy through booms and busts from the 1980s through the 2000s. Greenspan has a new book out now called "Capitalism in America: A History," which he co-wrote with Financial Times reporter Adrian Wooldridge. See omnystudio.com/listener for pr...

There is no one more closely associated with junk bonds than Michael Milken, who, in the 1970s, realized that investors could make more money buying bonds from companies with lower credit ratings than they could from companies with triple-A rated bonds. However, the same competitive nature that made Milken millions ended up hurting him. In 1990, Milken pled guilty to six counts of violating securi...

When Christine Lagarde was selected to become the first female managing director of the IMF in 2011, it was simply another "first" for the French lawyer, whose long career has included experiences in the legal, governmental, and economic fields in both the public and private sectors.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Over his long career, Barry Diller has founded and led some of the most influential media companies in America, creating the Fox Broadcasting Company, running Paramount Pictures, and, more recently, leading InterActiveCorp as it grows into a multi-billion dollar internet company.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In 1993, a young engineer named Jeff Bezos had the idea to sell books online. He called his new company Amazon and warned many of his early investors that there was a 70 percent chance the venture would either fail or go bankrupt.  Twenty-five years later, it's very clear that Bezos' idea did not fail. Amazon not only survived, it thrived. It’s now the world's largest online sales company, and the...

With degrees and doctorates from Harvard and Brown University, Dr. Jim Yong Kim is one of the best-educated people to ever serve as head of the World Bank, but he is also one of the most unconventional: Kim's degrees are in biology and anthropology and his job history includes time as a professor at Harvard and president of Dartmouth College, where he was the first Asian-American to lead an Ivy Le...

Five weeks after being named CEO of United Airlines, Oscar Munoz had a heart attack. Two months later, with a new heart, he was back at work, where he was faced with a company in disarray. Over the course of the following year, Munoz largely succeeded in turning around the airline. He recently sat down with Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein. They spoke on David Rubenstein's Bloomberg Telev...

With roughly 140,000 employees across 66 countries, Boeing airplanes and aerospace products represent one of the most visible and important U.S. exports to the globe. And as CEO of the roughly $93 billion company, Dennis Muilenburg is in charge of securing the plane-maker's future in both the commercial and military sectors: overseeing the rollout of the 787 dreamliner and the Max 10, and securing...

In 1972, a young entrepreneur named Richard Branson turned his mail order record business into a brick and mortar store, which he named Virgin Records. Today, the company - which is now called Virgin Group - is much more than a record store, comprising more than 40 companies that include airlines, financial services, communications, and even space-travel.  And Branson himself has stakes in more th...

Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates have a lot in common. They were both CEOs of Microsoft, they are two of the wealthiest people in the world, and they both dropped out of prestigious universities to work at the computer company founded by Gates and Paul Allen in 1975. But when Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980, the company had yet to dominate the personal computer market, eventually creating three billi...

Opera singers are famous for being divas on an off the stage, but American soprano Renee Flemming has spent her long and notable career developing a different persona, often being called the "People's Diva."    For many of Fleming's fans, she is the first, and perhaps the only opera star they have ever paid close attention to, selling more than 2 million records, winning Grammy's and other awards...

As CEO of the Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala Investment Company Khaldoon Al Mubarak is part of a new effort by the UAE government to diversify its economy beyond oil. On this episode of the David Rubenstein Show, Al Mubarak discusses overseeing a sovereign wealth fund with more than $250 billion in assets, and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert F. Smith's life has taken him from the newly de-segregated classrooms of suburban Denver, to Columbia Business School, Goldman Sachs, and eventually to his own private equity firm, Vista Equity Partners.  On this episode of the David Rubenstein Show, Smith discusses working as an intern at Bell Labs when he was below the minimum age requirement, becoming the first Goldman Sachs employee to...

Seven years after the death of visionary co-founder Steve Jobs, Apple is on its way to a market capitalization of $1 trillion, the first-ever public company to do so. Much of the tech giant's recent growth can be attributed to CEO Tim Cook, who took over from Jobs. Cook joins Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein on this episode to discuss Apple’s growth and more. See omnystudio.com/listener f...