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Rob Kapito — President and Co-Founder of BlackRock

For wealth professionals, the episode gives a first-person account of how a large asset manager grew through acquisitions and expanded into private markets, including through HPS. It is a manager-history conversation rather than a market outlook or allocation discussion.

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In this episode of The HPScast, host Colbert Cannon interviews Rob Kapito, BlackRock co-founder and president, about his path from his family's garage and First Boston to helping build BlackRock. Kapito discusses the firm's Merrill Lynch and Barclays Global Investors deals and its private-markets evolution through the GIP and HPS acquisitions. He also talks about his work with Hope & Heroes, which funds work on childhood cancer and blood disorders.

  1. Kapito describes his career path from pumping gas at his family's garage to First Boston and then joining Larry Fink's group to build BlackRock.
  2. He discusses BlackRock's Merrill Lynch and Barclays Global Investors deals.
  3. He covers the firm's private-markets evolution through the acquisitions of GIP and HPS.
  4. He discusses his philanthropy through Hope & Heroes and its work on childhood cancer and blood disorders.

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