{"id":41232,"date":"2025-12-21T11:42:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/tis-the-season-for-another-blackstone-holiday-video\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T11:42:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:42:19","slug":"tis-the-season-for-another-blackstone-holiday-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/tis-the-season-for-another-blackstone-holiday-video\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tis the season for another Blackstone holiday video"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/694401b664858d02d21709a5?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Blackstone&#039;s Steve Schwarzman and Jon Gray in a Back to the Future parody from the firm&#039;s holiday video\"\/><figcaption>Blackstone&#039;s Steve Schwarzman and Jon Gray in a Back to the Future parody from the firm&#039;s holiday video<\/p>\n<p>Blackstone<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><em>This post originally appeared in the BI Today newsletter.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>You can sign up for <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/subscription\/newsletter\/insider-today\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Business Insider&#039;s daily newsletter here<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#039;re in the thick of the holiday season, and that can only mean one thing on Wall Street: Blackstone&#039;s annual holiday video is out.<\/p>\n<p>The tongue-in-cheek video leans into the private equity shop&#039;s 40th anniversary with a mocking tribute to its 1980s origins. It riffs on everything from Ken Burns-style narration, including an abrupt firing of Burns himself in favor of some &quot;pizzazz,&quot; to execs dancing their way through &quot;Dirty Dancing&quot;-style choreography.<\/p>\n<p>Executives portraying the firm&#039;s mid-life crisis include one who wears a nose ring and others who want to buy sports teams or Ferrari (the company). Cameos include actor Danny DeVito pitching jargon-filled investment products, as well as Goldman Sachs CEO (and side-hustling DJ) David Solomon.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-and-a-half-minute video concludes with BlackstoneCEO Steve Schwarzman and President Jon Gray in a parody of the &quot;Back to the Future&quot; movie.<\/p>\n<p>Blackstone is no stranger to quirky holiday videos. In fact, this was their 8th in a row (see where this year&#039;s video lands in BI&#039;s power ranking).<\/p>\n<p>You might be wondering: Why does Blackstone spend so much time, effort, and money on such a thing, especially when few other financial firms do? Apollo produced its own holiday video in 2022, but this year the private-equity firm appears to have pivoted to publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Blackstone produced its first holiday video in 2018 as a replacement for its New York holiday party, as the firm had grown too large. Earlier this month, at a conference, Gray said the video was a way for the world&#039;s largest private investor to &quot;make fun of ourselves.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Blackstone&#039;s video ends on a poignant note in memory of Wesley LePatner, a Blackstone executive who was killed in the tragic summer shooting at the firm&#039;s NYC headquarters. The video said she &quot;always made us smile.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackstone&#039;s Steve Schwarzman and Jon Gray in a Back to the Future parody from the firm&#039;s holiday video Blackstone This post originally appeared in the BI Today newsletter. You can sign up for Business Insider&#039;s daily newsletter here. We&#039;re in the thick of the holiday season, and that can only mean one thing on Wall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}