| History of private equity and venture capital |
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| Early history |
| (origins of modern private equity) |
| The 1980s |
| (leveraged buyout boom) |
| The 1990s |
| (leveraged buyout and the venture capital bubble) |
| The 2000s |
| (dot-com bubble to the credit crunch) |
| The 2010s |
| (expansion) |
| The 2020s |
| (COVID-19 recession) |
In the 2020s private equity firms needed to respond to the COVID-19 recession. In the early 2020s private equity funding exploded.[1] Private equity firm Silver Lake was involved in the costly 2020 acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk.[2] The World Economic Forum suggested private equity would fund the post-recession revival of the economy.[3]
- ^ "McKinsey's Private Markets Annual Review | McKinsey". www.mckinsey.com. Retrieved 2023-03-17.
- ^ Lunden, Ingrid (2020-03-09). "Silver Lake makes $1B investment into Twitter; Twitter, Elliott call truce as Dorsey remains CEO". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
- ^ "3 reasons why private equity will enable post-pandemic economy". World Economic Forum. 27 January 2022. Retrieved 2022-11-27.