Blackstone to acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7 billion, giving investment firm total ownership of all DNA from every person who's e...
The world's largest provider of DNA services has been gobbled up by Wall Street investment giant Blackstone.For $4.7 billion, Blackstone purchased Ancestry.com from private equity rivals Silver Lake, Spectrum Equity, and Permira, placing a "big bet," as Re...
Two things, first this is Blackstone, not Blackrock. Second, this acquisition happened two years ago.
They might as well be the same company. Here's a history lesson on Blackstone and blackrock.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/22/blackstone-or-blackrock-schwarzman-and-fink-did-it-on-purpose.html
Interesting, I didn't know they connected that way. Of course no hedge fund companies should exist at all anyway and every single one of them is evil to the core.