Bonderman co-founded TPG, which started as a small outfit investing the fortune of a Texas oilman and became one of the biggest PE firms in the world.

Before David Bonderman became an investor, he had never taken an accounting class but had already argued in front of the Supreme Court, hitchhiked across Africa and become fluent in Arabic.Bonderman went on to co-found private-equity firm TPG,

Bonderman, who got his start as a lawyer, also owned the Seattle Kraken NHL team. A look back at the early leveraged buyouts of tech companies that his firm TPG pursued.