Bonderman’s wild ways forged TPG. It’s up to ‘Winks’ to tame it
At 79, David Bonderman has fully, finally handed off TPG – part of the great, generational shift now afoot in the $US6 trillion private-equity business.
Talk to just about anyone who’s worked at TPG over the past three decades and they’ve got a David Bonderman story.
There was the time he spent weeks holed up on a superyacht off the coast of Australia while authorities tried to question him over a $US700 million tax bill. Or when executives rented a private island in the Caribbean to celebrate the wildly lucrative buyout of Continental Airlines.
