RedBird Capital Partners
RedBird Capital Partners is a private investment firm that builds high-growth companies with strategic capital solutions to founders and entrepreneurs. The firm currently manages approximately $14 billion in assets on behalf of a global group of blue chip institutional and family office investors. Founded in 2014 by Gerry Cardinale, RedBird integrates sophisticated private equity investing with a hands-on business building mandate that focuses on three core industry verticals – Sports, Media & Entertainment, and Financial Services. Throughout his 30-year investment career, Cardinale has partnered with founders and entrepreneurs to build some of the most iconic growth companies in their respective industries. For more information, please go to www.redbirdcap.com.www.redbirdcap.com
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Sep 30, 2026
Will HeyburnGUEST
I've been at Strata for about nine years now.
Will HeyburnGUEST
I come here by way of one of our largest investors, which is Redbird Capital Partners, where I worked in private equity and have prior experience working in public credit investing, restructuring banking before coming here, but have Been working on our organ transplant business since we incepted it in 2019.
Will HeyburnGUEST
Starting working just for all the hospitals here in New York City and gradually built it to be a coast-to-coast operation that it is today.
David BarbatoHOST
Perfect.
Benno NagelGUEST
I think he was a consultant with Brentford.
Benno NagelGUEST
And then I think he's involved with a group called Redbird Capital, I believe.
Benno NagelGUEST
You have to look it up online.
Benno NagelGUEST
But Redbird, I believe, owned Juventus.
Ed ElsonHOST
I totally agree.
Ed ElsonHOST
You know, I, I would've been, I would've been okay with it if he'd actually, uh, achieved a, a decent outcome, but the fact that he goes out there, he says, "This can't happen," and then gets basically nothing and then parades around as if he won something, it's like, oh great, we're gonna get ed- editorial oversight, and who's gonna be in charge of the editorial oversight? David Ellison and Red Bird Capital, the, the, the, the, the two, uh, entities that already control the company.
Ed ElsonHOST
So no, we're not getting any editorial insight.
Ed ElsonHOST
That's not a brag.
Peter HambyHOST
Um, do you think in three or four years that's what they are going to look like, or will this just be a combined entity at that point?
John KellyPANELIST
I, I should note first that, um, as, as some, um, uh, ardent listeners know that, uh, Redbird Capital, an, an investor in Puck, is also an investor in, in Paramount Skydance.
John KellyPANELIST
Um, and I am reminded as you're saying this, Peter, of, but actually a, a, a nice bit that our pal Scott Galloway did on Pivot the other day where he was talking about, um, a board meeting many, many decades ago at Levi Strauss & Company where he, um, he was, uh, listening to the, the directors contemplate moving production from the southeast, you know, um, that sort of manufacturing corridor, to Asia.
John KellyPANELIST
And he was this young whippersnapper, and I think probably had a lot of, uh, resolve, and said, you know, "The, the truth is you can do it now when it seems a little early, or you can do it in 10 years when it's way too late." And so to your, to your friend's member, I, I don't wanna discount any of the pain and agony around this, and I feel like actually I've, uh, I've seen this pattern play out many other times, as we've talked about on the show before.
Hugo MendesGUEST
Moi, je suis un grand passionné de sport et donc j'avais toujours voulu un peu travailler dans cet écosystème-là.
Hugo MendesGUEST
Et par chance, en fait, le fonds private equity Redbird avait, euh, commencé à investir dans pas mal de franchises de sport en Europe.
Hugo MendesGUEST
Et donc j'ai été recruté via Redbird pour rejoindre justement ce, ce, ce fond-- ce club qui était le Toulouse Football Club.
Elie ZemmourHOST
Ok.
Hugo MendesGUEST
Où du coup, je me suis occupé pendant quel-- pendant deux ans de plein de sujets un petit peu dra-- business, donc sponsoring, merchandising, euh, ticketing, 'fin, tu vois, tous ces sujets-là, comm'.
Hugo MendesGUEST
Même, tu vois, dans ce projet-là, je travaillais toujours sur des sujets de business analytics pour aller de, dériver de la data, pour aller se-- identifier des sponsors potentiels.
Hugo MendesGUEST
Donc j'étais toujours un peu- Toujours passionné par ce secteur-là et j'avais envie d'y rester.
Hugo MendesGUEST
Et donc après deux ans, bah j'ai décidé de quitter euh, Redbird, quitter tous les Football Club et j'ai rejoint une start-up à Berlin qui s'appelle AI Acoustics, qui était un petit peu au tout début de, du voice AI.
Geeky SparklesHOST
Yeah, that's another point about the debt, which is why they had to bring the Saudis in and they want to bring other like billionaire investors in because of the debt.
KneonHOST
So the merger was initially backed by roughly $46 billion in equity financing from Larry Ellison and Redbird Capital.
KneonHOST
Another investor could spread the exposure.
KneonHOST
Basically, another rich guy could come in and make it easier for Ellison.
John PollockHOST
Today, post-wrestling and WrestleNomics.
John PollockHOST
I want to ask you, Brandon, if we collectively pooled our brands together, what do you think Redbird Capital would value us at?
Brandon ThurstonHOST
I think it depends on what they would expect they were getting as a return on their investment.
Brandon ThurstonHOST
I don't know.
John PollockHOST
Today, Puck, which is a bookmark of Brandon's on a daily basis.
John PollockHOST
One of my favorites.
John PollockHOST
Redbird Capital is investing in Puck.
John PollockHOST
And their valuation is $250 million.
Geeky SparklesHOST
It was the debt, which is why they had to bring the Saudis in and they want to bring other like billionaire investors in because of the debt.
KneonHOST
So the merger was initially backed by roughly $46 billion in equity financing from Larry Ellison and Redbird Capital.
KneonHOST
Another investor could spread the exposure.
KneonHOST
Basically, another rich guy could come in and make it easier for Ellison.
Geeky SparklesHOST
It was the debt, which is why they had to bring the Saudis in and they want to bring other like billionaire investors in because of the debt.
KneonHOST
So the merger was initially backed by roughly $46 billion in equity financing from Larry Ellison and Redbird Capital.
KneonHOST
Another investor could spread the exposure.
KneonHOST
Basically, another rich guy could come in and make it easier for Ellison.
Mirwan SuwarsoGUEST
And with Steven Pagliuca's advice, I mean, he used to own the Boston Celtics, their system is in place.
Mirwan SuwarsoGUEST
You've got AC Milan with Redbird with their ambitions.
Mirwan SuwarsoGUEST
You've got Inter Milan or Inter with Oak Tree.
Mirwan SuwarsoGUEST
They're bringing the right people in now.
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