Private equity in the 2020s

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 2020s private equity firms needed to respond to the COVID-19 recession. In the early 2020s private equity funding exploded.^[1] Private equity firm Silver Lake was involved in the costly 2020 acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk.^[2] The World Economic Forum suggested private equity would fund the post-recession revival of the economy.^[3]