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Oct 26, 2026
Evan EpsteinHOST
Thomas has spent much of his career working at the intersection of AI, engineering, and enterprise transformation, including leadership roles at Honeywell and as chief AI officer at Lucid Motors.
Evan EpsteinHOST
Victor brings a private equity perspective from the Carlyle Group, working with portfolio companies on governance, value creation, and long-term strategic planning.
Evan EpsteinHOST
In our conversation, we discuss how boards can anticipate not only the immediate effects of AI, but also the second and third order consequences for business models, marketplaces, and competitive advantage.
Evan EpsteinHOST
We also explore the role of the chief AI officer, how private equity boards can approach value creation and decision making, what AI means for founders and consumer businesses, cybersecurity, and data protection, and how CEO succession changes when private equity holding periods extend.
DJ Van KeurenGUEST
Yeah, and this isn't in any particular order, but because I believe with Dex that the person presenting may like to do it in a little different order, possibly.
DJ Van KeurenGUEST
But you want to go and say, here's the opportunity, right? What's the opportunity? What are you going after? Just like I was saying before, if it's workforce housing, what is the market? What's happening in the market? Why is there an opportunity here, right? And you're going to want to also go over who are you? right do you have a team is it just you if you have a team what does that team include and so you want to start giving an idea if you have a track record you want to start you want to be able to have your track record and say this is our historical track record right we've done x number of deals we've averaged this type of return or we currently have you know 200 million dollars of assets right if you have those assets you definitely want to bring it up If you are a new fund manager where you worked at like an institution, let's say that you worked at Blackstone or Carlyle and you were handling the real estate for a portion of the real estate for Blackstone, you better talk about that because that's a huge deal.
DJ Van KeurenGUEST
It's like I've been doing it for these guys, making them a lot of money.
DJ Van KeurenGUEST
Well, now I want to do it so I can make some of that money too, right? And so can you as the investor.
Julian WongNARRATOR
McDonald's arrived in Xinjiang in late 2020, opening its first outlet in the region just as the United States and other governments were ramping up scrutiny of China's actions there.
Julian WongNARRATOR
A few years earlier, in 2017, McDonald's sold 80% of its China business, including a controlling stake to entities tied to state-owned conglomerate CITIC, as well as a minority share to private equity giant Carlyle.
Julian WongNARRATOR
The partnership pledged to open 2,000 new outlets, including many in smaller Chinese cities.
Julian WongNARRATOR
In Xinjiang, McDonald's teamed up with Zheng Huang, a local businessman.
Julian WongNARRATOR
By the end of 2023, McDonald's had opened 19 outlets in four Xinjiang cities.
Julian WongNARRATOR
In a Chinese-language press release, McDonald's said it had grown in lockstep with the region.
Julian WongNARRATOR
Witnessing Xinjiang's prosperity, Carlyle completed a deal to sell its stake back to McDonald's in early 2024.
Julian WongNARRATOR
Xinjing's natural resources are key to the government's growth strategy.
Julian WongNARRATOR
McDonald's arrived in Xinjiang in late 2020, opening its first outlet in the region just as the United States and other governments were ramping up scrutiny of China's actions there.
Julian WongNARRATOR
A few years earlier, in 2017, McDonald's sold 80% of its China business, including a controlling stake to entities tied to state-owned conglomerate CITIC, as well as a minority share to private equity giant Carlyle.
Julian WongNARRATOR
The partnership pledged to open 2,000 new outlets, including many in smaller Chinese cities.
Julian WongNARRATOR
In Xinjiang, McDonald's teamed up with Zheng Huang, a local businessman.
Julian WongNARRATOR
By the end of 2023, McDonald's had opened 19 outlets in four Xinjiang cities.
Julian WongNARRATOR
In a Chinese-language press release, McDonald's said it had grown in lockstep with the region.
Julian WongNARRATOR
Witnessing Xinjiang's prosperity, Carlyle completed a deal to sell its stake back to McDonald's in early 2024.
Julian WongNARRATOR
Xinjing's natural resources are key to the government's growth strategy.
Rick HorrowHOST
Nextelia, there.
Rick HorrowHOST
Carlyle, there.
Rick HorrowHOST
Many private equity firms are looking at this as well as private equity in a whole host of other situations too, teams, league conferences, and the like.
Rick HorrowHOST
So we'll have to see how that auction plays out.
Dan MartellHOST
And he's inviting all the top business folks like Mark Cuban and man, who did he have on the other day? Weinstein, David Weinstein, who is, I mean, he's one of my idols in the private equity world.
Dan MartellHOST
He created Carlisle Group.
Dan MartellHOST
This is a 21 year old kid that's got the Titan of the industry coming on and giving him life and business advice.
Dan MartellHOST
That's what I'm talking about.
Patrick SweeneyGUEST
And I said, well, you know, we've got a lot of people interested.
Patrick SweeneyGUEST
I've been spending time with the guys from Carlyle, which is one of the biggest venture and private equity funds in the world.
Patrick SweeneyGUEST
And I said, you know, we've got people from New Enterprise Associates, NEA, which was another big one at the time.
Patrick SweeneyGUEST
And he said, well, I want to make sure I get a place that's around.
Maneet AhujaHOST
My special guest today didn't just join the world of private capital, he helped write its rules.
Maneet AhujaHOST
Co-founder of Carlyle in 1987, grew their firm from a Washington startup into a global investment powerhouse with nearly $500 billion in assets under management.
Maneet AhujaHOST
He also owns the Baltimore Orioles, the team he grew up cheering for, bought the Magna Carta and shared it with the nation.
Maneet AhujaHOST
And this fall, not one but two books, Inside the Owner's Box and Speaking of America.
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Maneet AhujaHOST
So David, before we go, I want to talk about the long game.
Maneet AhujaHOST
You're a long-term investor.
Maneet AhujaHOST
You left the Carter White House and started Carlyle in your late 30s.
Maneet AhujaHOST
What would you say to a 35-year-old who feels behind in today's markets?
William D. CohanGUEST
So there are people who just continue to do private equity.
William D. CohanGUEST
Then there are the private equity firms that went public, Blackstone, Apollo, TBG, Carlyle, KKR, the bigger private equity firms.
William D. CohanGUEST
And as public companies, I guess at some point they decided that private equity is a wonderful and profitable but slow growth business.
William D. CohanGUEST
And so they needed to get into businesses that were faster growth.
Diego Mendoza-MoyersHOST
Again, like whatever, right? But that's less than these two data centers combined.
Diego Mendoza-MoyersHOST
The other thing that we have to remember is at Fort Bliss, The Carlyle Group, this private equity firm, is talking about building a data center on Fort Bliss that exceeds both Project Jupiter and Meta in size, but it's just been so secretive and vague about the project that we don't know what it's gonna produce from a greenhouse gas perspective.
Diego Mendoza-MoyersHOST
The Army has told me, yeah, that we're probably gonna use natural gas power plants.
Diego Mendoza-MoyersHOST
a lot of natural gas generation over there in Fort Bliss.
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