In the universal quest to one up each other, there are few places where you can keep score as closely as Wall Street. When Steven Schwarzman raised $4.75 billion to take the Blackstone Group public, poor Henry Kravis surely felt diminished that his company wasn't raking in as much as his longtime rival. After all, there can be only one Napoleon marching through New York. Kravis then took KKR public but raised $1.25 billion.
Ah victory. The art of...
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