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In recent months, troubled airlines from all over the world have been appealing to TPG for help. The partners were most interested, though, when a call came from David Siegel, CEO of US Airways, who had worked at Continental during TPG's turnaround of that carrier. US Airways has valuable...
Bonderman and Coulter learned from the best; they worked for one of the billionaire Bass brothers, Robert, in Fort Worth during the 1980s before opening Texas Pacific with lawyer William Price III in 1993. When European newspapers write about TPG's deals there, they love to run cartoons of the...
Actually, he can. Though they are unabashed vultures, Texas Pacific's partners get high grades from airline insiders for their knowledge of the industry and their eye for executive talent. Before any major investment, they walk the halls of the business, checking out employee morale and even the photos on...
Yann Martel's inspired novel Life of Pi is at its core a record of survival?and quite a record it is. Martel's protagonist, a 16-year-old Indian boy named Pi Patel, not only endures 227 days in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, but does so while...
Pi and his family decide to emigrate to Canada, zoo animals in tow, but their ship sinks into the Pacific, leaving Pi and the tiger?named Richard Parker due to circumstances that would take too long to describe here?bobbing in a lifeboat. With no escape for either, Pi must...