good morning for many people outside the world of alternative investing back before the industry became a major force in the us economy kkr and barbarians at the gate might well have been the only connection the untutored could draw to what has become known as privateequity investing back in those early days it was more common to hear the term “corporate raider” in connection with company takeovers and financiers like the founders of kkr and other practitioners of leveraged buyouts were little known outside wall street so to see both henry kravis and george roberts begin to take their final bows certainly marks