Bloomberg has a solid profile on KKR founder and private equity tycoon Henry Kravis. The story focuses on the massive leveraged buyout of RJR-Nabisco in 1987, then the largest private equity transaction in history.

"We're going to start our own firm and just focus on something that has never been done before; at the time we called it 'bootstrap acquisitions'" - Henry Kravis on leaving Bear Sterns with his cousin George Roberts and former colleague Jerome Kohlberg to form KKR on May 1, 1976 (6:54 min).