Liked on YouTube. | Title: How private equity firms can resemble the empires they once broke up | FT Big Deal. | Description: General Electric was once the mightiest enterprise in the world, worth hundreds of billions of dollars. When GE decided to break itself apart in 2021, many believed this symbolised the demise of the American conglomerate. But as the FT’s Mark Vandevelde reports, bringing hundreds of companies together under common ownership hasn’t died, it has a new name: private equity. #kkr #conglomerates See if you get the FT for free as a student (http://ft.com/schoolsarefree) or start a £1 trial: https://subs.ft.com/spa3_trial?segmentId=3d4ba81b-96bb-cef0-9ece-29efd6ef2132. ► To learn more, visit our website - https://channels.ft.com/en/bigdeal/ ► Watch more videos from this series here - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrhpR40o4n5xDI-MtPqTLdS6KtCpoHP9s ► Check out our Community tab for more stories on the economy. ► Listen to our podcasts: https://www.ft.com/podcasts ► Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/financialtimes'. | Published at: March 14, 2022 at 01:09AM. #%via:ifttt #%youtube #bookmarked_on_site #%watched #%consumed