Blackstone founder bestows life lessons in self-help memoir
From educating German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the benefits of private equity-backed businesses to overturning single-gender education at his alma mater Yale, the book has been described as a memoir filled with life lessons.
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/09/17/blackstone-co-founder-stephen-schwarzman-autobiography-squawk-box.html
AlbionVC bags 10X return on PSE sale to Siemens
AlbionVC, the technology investment arm of Albion Capital Group, has reported today that Siemens plans to acquire portfolio company, Process Systems Enterprise (PSE), a UK-based Advanced Process Modelling (APM) software and services business. The exit represents a return of c.10x for the Albion VCTs.
According to Crunchbase, PSE has raised just over $3m from...
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Meat alternative brand, Beyond Meat, has seen stellar investment popularity since it floated in May.
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Zoom: is now the right time to invest in this ‘happy’ stock?
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan's mission of keeping customers happy with easy-to-use tech on multiple devices is helping the business reach a wide range of customers
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Can only private investors make it big in renewables in 2019?
Mark Lewis, global head of sustainability research at BNP Paribas, says in this CNBC interview that the capital costs in renewable energy are "plummeting." That is good for all parties involved in the asset class.
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