The David Rubenstein Show

Alphabet Inc. Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat says employees having the chance to work together in person is key to fostering innovation, but the nature of work will inevitably change because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Porat, who has held roles on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, tells her story on the latest episode of "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations."

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Reed Hastings says if he had known how big Netflix was going to get he never would have sold a share. The founder and now Co-CEO of Netflix discusses the meteoric rise of Netflix with David Rubenstein on the latest episode of "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations."

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Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban tells David Rubenstein he is stunned how well the NBA bubble has worked. Cuban discusses his ambitions for the Dallas Mavericks and investment opportunities amid the COVID-19 crisis on the latest episode of "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations." 

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Lonnie Bunch is the fourteenth secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He is the first African American secretary and first historian to oversee what is the world's largest museum and research complex. Bunch talks to David Rubenstein about running the organization during the Covid-19 pandemic and about the museum's response to protests over racism in America. He appears on the latest episode of "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations."

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The killers of Berta Caceres had every reason to believe they’d get away with murder. More than 100 other environmental activists in Honduras had been killed in the previous five years, yet almost no one had been punished for the crimes. Bloomberg’s Blood River follows a four-year quest to find her killers – a twisting trail that leads into the country’s circles of power.

Blood River is out now.

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Stephen Schwarzman is the founder of Blackstone Group, the largest alternative asset manager in the world, with $554 billion worth of assets under management. He spoke with David Rubenstein about starting the firm, surviving the real estate crash of 2007, and being rejected from Harvard.

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Ray Dalio is the founder of the world's biggest hedge fund firm, Bridgewater Associates, which manages $160 billion. Through his Dalio Foundation, he has directed millions of dollars in donations to the David Lynch Foundation, an organization that sponsors and promotes research on Transcendental Meditation. Also working to make sure Bridgewater survives him, Dalio moved in 2018 to turn Bridgewater into a partnership and give employees more of a stake in the firm.

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Entrepreneur and businessman Bill Gates and his business partner Paul Allen founded and built the world's largest software business, Microsoft, through technological innovation, keen business strategy and aggressive business tactics. In the process, Gates became one of the richest men in the world. In February 2014, Gates announced that he was stepping down as Microsoft's chairman to focus on charitable work at his foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Gates sat down with David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group, and host of the Bloomberg television show, Peer to Peer Conversations, to discuss global warming, carbon emissions, regulating big tech, and why he thinks Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat can help the environment.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was first appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1980 by President Jimmy Carter, then to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton in 1993. 

Ginsburg is the second out of only four female justices to ever be confirmed to the court. 

Ginsburg sat down with David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group, and host of the Bloomberg television show, Peer to Peer Conversations, to discuss her health, the dissent that earned her the nickname of the "Notorious RBG," and the politics on the Supreme Court. 

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The NBA's popularity seems to be hitting a new peak, as ticket sales, revenues, and franchise value continues to rise. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver sat down with Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein for his Bloomberg Television show Peer to Peer Conversations, and spoke about the history of basketball and why it's so popular around the world.

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