{"id":5069,"date":"2012-06-19T06:41:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T14:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=5069"},"modified":"2012-06-19T14:43:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T22:43:02","slug":"from-forbes-rating-venture-capitalists-how-does-romneybain-rate-against-bondermantpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/19\/from-forbes-rating-venture-capitalists-how-does-romneybain-rate-against-bondermantpg\/","title":{"rendered":"(from forbes) RATING VENTURE CAPITALISTS: How Does Romney\/Bain rate against Bonderman\/TPG?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Founding Fathers Of Private Equity: How Mitt Romney Stacks Up<\/h1>\n<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:<\/strong>\u00a0 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney launched private equity shop Bain Capital in 1984, under mandate from Bain &amp; Company founder Bill Bain. Fifteen years later,\u00a0Romney retired from the firm he founded, securing a generous compensation package that granted him a share of Bain profits for a decade and the right to invest alongside his former partners. With a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/edwindurgy\/2012\/05\/16\/what-mitt-romney-is-really-worth\/\" target=\"_blank\">net worth of $230 million<\/a>, there is\u00a0no denying that\u00a0Romney\u2019s\u00a0successful\u00a0career in,\u00a0and retirement from, private equity\u00a0was lucrative.\u00a0But when\u00a0examined in the context of his industry peers, Romney\u2019s fortune seems almost modest&#8230;.With $60 billion under management and more than a quarter century of delivering superior returns under its belt, Bain Capital ranks squarely amongst private equity\u2019s elite outfits, competing for investors and\u00a0deals\u00a0with firms like TPG Capital, KKR &amp; Co., and the Carlyle Group. Behind these Bain rivals are the\u00a0titans of the buyout industry, men with names like Bonderman, Kravis and Rubenstein, billionaires all. In fact, six of the seven independent American\u00a0private equity firms in the top ten of Private Equity International\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peimedia.com\/Pages.aspx?pageID=3391\" target=\"_blank\">PEI 50 list<\/a> can boast billionaire founders.\u00a0The lone exception is Bain Capital.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ZEPHYR COMMENT:\u00a0 <em>And yet Mr. Bonderman gets a pass from mainstream environmentalists\u00a0 because he contributes significant amounts of money to their organizations&#8230;is that all it takes to be a &#8216;good&#8217; venture capitalist and avoid scrutiny from the &#8216;green&#8217; media?&#8230;JS<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ THE ARTICLE IN FULL, CLICK THE PIC:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/edwindurgy\/2012\/06\/05\/the-founding-fathers-of-private-equity-how-mitt-romney-stacks-up\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5076\" title=\"0515_mitt-romney_400x280-300x210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/0515_mitt-romney_400x280-300x2101.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ ALL ZBLOG POSTS, CLICK &#8216;THE ZEPHYR&#8217; AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ THE JUNE\/JULY Z, CLICK THE COVER.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5071\" title=\"COV-JUN12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/COV-JUN125-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/COV-JUN125-221x300.jpg 221w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/COV-JUN125.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0IF THE PHOTO LINK DOESN&#8217;T TAKE YOU TO THE STORY, CUT &amp; PASTE THIS URL:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/edwindurgy\/2012\/06\/05\/the-founding-fathers-of-private-equity-how-mitt-romney-stacks-up\/:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Founding Fathers Of Private Equity: How Mitt Romney Stacks Up AN EXCERPT:\u00a0 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney launched private equity shop Bain Capital in 1984, under mandate from Bain &amp; Company founder Bill Bain. Fifteen years later,\u00a0Romney retired from the firm he founded, securing a generous compensation package that granted him a share of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5083,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions\/5083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}