🔊 Apollo sidelined Wall Street banks to build a $1 trillion asset empire. On The Big View podcast, author William D. Cohan and Peter Thal Larsen discuss its rise from the junk-bond bust and whether its model can last ↧ PODCAST: How Apollo rewrote the rules of Wall Street The private equity and credit firm elbowed aside big banks to amass $1 trln of assets. In this episode of The Big View, William D. Cohan, author of ‘Money to Burn’, and Peter Thal Larsen discuss how Apollo rose from the 1990s junk bond wreck and whether its new model will endure.