Before founding KKR, where did the three founders work together?
Goldman Sachs
Morgan Stanley
Bear Stearns
Lehman Brothers
Answer
Jerome Kohlberg Jr., Henry Kravis, and George R. Roberts worked together at Bear Stearns before founding KKR in 1976. They completed some of the earliest leveraged buyout transactions while at Bear Stearns.
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