About Larry Fink
- Larry Fink is the founder, CEO and chairman of powerhouse investment management firm BlackRock, one of the world's largest asset managers.
- He and seven partners founded BlackRock in 1988. Originally it was part of The Blackstone Group.
- BlackRock was spun off from Blackstone in 1994 and went public in 1999.
- Today Blackrock has $8.7 trillion in assets under management.
- Before starting BlackRock, Fink was a managing director at The First Boston Corporation.
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