Orlando Bravo

Private equity firms, the good ones, definitely beat the public markets.

We are in the business of turning great innovators into great businesses.

Well, by the way, thanks so much for having me.

And I'm not sure how we're supposed to talk about serious stuff and private equity when we have this.

You persevere.

I got this.

Look, that touches my heart that you asked that question.

Because when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, kind of everything stopped for me because my best friends are there, my family's there, cousins, my whole upbringing.

I got there on a plane the day after.

I was in San Francisco.

And we had gotten a message from Puerto Rico saying there's some shelters, particularly one that was really close to my hometown of Mayaguez, that had only two days supply of food and water.

And there were all these kids and everything else.

And the government of Puerto Rico, they had trouble serving these towns.

So we said, we'll go from San Francisco and bring you a bunch of food and water, and we'll be there tomorrow.

And they actually showed up.

When I landed, three of my friends that I hadn't seen in a while, my best high school friends, one of them asked me, oh, now you're doing all this business stuff.

How did that happen?

And I said, well, the odds are one of us had to get lucky.

Out of everybody here...

One, I mean, there's some odds to that.