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Jim Coulter

Cofounder, TPG

Search every verified Jim Coulter interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Jim Coulter, co-founder and executive chairman of TPG, has been active in discussions on climate investing, private markets, and AI infrastructure. In June 2025, he said at the Super Return conference that uncertainty over U.S. policy has caused private markets to pause, adding that "as you tell us the rules, we'll play the game." He described the current moment as similar to the health care market in 2010, where initial nervousness gave way to growth. Coulter also said that private credit has "a long way to go" and that climate investing is moving forward in Europe and India even as the U.S. market pauses. In November 2025, he discussed TPG's partnership with Tata Consultancy Services to create HyperVault AI Data Centres, saying India is poised to become a global hub for AI compute and data infrastructure due to its low-cost electricity, skilled workforce, and data center capacity. He acknowledged that profitability in the AI sector remains a challenge, with inference costs not yet covering capex. Coulter has also spoken extensively about the need to scale climate solutions through infrastructure investment. In June 2025, he said the spending on energy transition is about $2 trillion a year and is expected to triple, and that TPG's role is to "find the most interesting pockets of opportunity" and ensure "the right capital gets to the right opportunity." He described climate investing as requiring a shift from venture-stage ideas to building real assets, with a need to scale at a rate of $6.5 trillion per year over the next 30 years. In December 2024, he said that approaching climate change requires viewing it as both a problem to solve and an opportunity, and that "the money is going to start moving because the opportunity is there." He has also reflected on the legacy of his late business partner David Bonderman, describing him as a "polymath" who pioneered problem-solving dealmaking and built TPG around the principles of "contrarianism, complexity and change."

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“We created the good bank/bad bank structure for American Savings when working with Bass, and then we exported that structure around the world to do bank rescues in China and Korea.”

“David did deal making as problem solving — he took on deals everyone saw but no one else was willing to take, not because he took more risk but because he saw something different. Take the Continental Airlines deal: Dave and I carved out a new Continental and took it from worst to first in seven years.”

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