Inside the Trillion Dollar Industry That Owns Everything What do Dunkin Donuts J. Crew Toys R" Us & Burger King have in common? They are all currently or just recently were owned operated & controlled by private equity firms. The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything takes the reader behind the scenes of these firms: their famous billionaire founders the overlapping stories of their creation & evolution & the outsized ambitions that led a group of clever bankers from small shops operating in a corner of Wall Street into powerhouse titans of capital. This is the story of the money & the men who handle it. Go inside the private worlds of founders Henry Kravis Steve Schwarzman David Bonderman & more in The New Tycoons & discover how these men have transformed the industry & built the some of the most powerful & most secretive houses of money in the world. With numerous private equity firms going public for the first time learn how these firms operate where their money comes from & where it goes & how every day millions of customers employees & retirees play a role in that complex tangle of money Author Jason Kelly tells the story of how thirty some years ago a group of colleagues with $120 000 of their own savings founded what would become one of the largest private equity shops in the world completing the biggest buyout the world has ever seen & making them all billionaires in the process Presents a never-before-seen look inside a secretive & powerful world on the verge of complete transformation as the industry & its leaders gain public profiles scrutiny & political positions Analyzing the founders & the firms at a crucial moment when theyve elevated themselves beyond their already lofty ambitions into the world of public opinion & valuation New Tycoons looks at one of the most important yet least examined trillion-dollar corners of the global economy & what it portends for these new tycoons."