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.

David Bonderman, the co-founder of private equity giant TPG who led it to become a major investor in the entertainment industry, died Wednesday. He was 82. Bonderman's death was announced in a statement released by his family and his companies;

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,