History of private equity and venture capital
Early history
(origins of modern private equity)
The 1980s
(leveraged buyout boom)
The 1990s
(leveraged buyout and the venture capital bubble)
The 2000s
(dot-com bubble to the credit crunch)
The 2010s
(expansion)
The 2020s
(COVID-19 recession)
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In the 2010s Private equity massively grew.^[1] Private equity was accused of "running amok" in the 2010s and resulting in numerous economic issues.^[2] Forbes has described private equity firms as fundamentally transforming over the decade^[3] Many private equity firms embraced ESG over the decade among other changes^[4] but they have been accused of greenwashing.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10]}