Tpg Inc.
A global alternative asset manager that buys and builds companies across consumer, technology, and healthcare, backing brands like Chobani, e.l.f. Cosmetics, and Crunch Fitness. It was founded in 1992 as Texas Pacific Group — the name blending its Fort Worth and San Francisco roots — and shortened to TPG in 2007. Its origin story is a famously contrarian bet on the twice-bankrupt Continental Airlines, a deal rivals said they "wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole."