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Orlando Bravo

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573 total appearances

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Bloomberg Talks
Thoma Bravo Co-Founder and Managing Partner Orlando Bravo

And it's so important in cyber to buy the number one player.

Bloomberg Talks
Thoma Bravo Co-Founder and Managing Partner Orlando Bravo

You cannot go in and buy the number three, four, five.

Bloomberg Talks
Thoma Bravo Co-Founder and Managing Partner Orlando Bravo

I can talk about that all day, why that's the case.

Bloomberg Talks
Thoma Bravo Co-Founder and Managing Partner Orlando Bravo

And our second team's core competency is turning a great innovator, which those companies are, into actually a great business.

Bloomberg Talks
Thoma Bravo Co-Founder and Managing Partner Orlando Bravo

Taking that 20% growth of the company and innovation and market leadership and making it work for the shareholder when those companies were delivering zero cash, have them deliver 40% cash.

Bloomberg Talks
Thoma Bravo Co-Founder and Managing Partner Orlando Bravo

That way, our investors become fundamental investors in software.

Bloomberg Talks
Thoma Bravo Co-Founder and Managing Partner Orlando Bravo

Instead of depending on a revenue multiple exit, which is completely arbitrary and completely volatile,

Bloomberg Talks
Thoma Bravo Co-Founder and Managing Partner Orlando Bravo

they depend on selling the company or they're selling the company at a 25 PE.

Bloomberg Talks
Thoma Bravo Co-Founder and Managing Partner Orlando Bravo

Highly justifiable as a small premium to the S&P 500 for four times the growth and a much, much better business.

Bloomberg Talks
Thoma Bravo Co-Founder and Managing Partner Orlando Bravo

All recurring where cash flow is greater than PE.

Bloomberg Talks
Thoma Bravo Co-Founder and Managing Partner Orlando Bravo

We turn a revenue multiple to an EBITDA multiple.

Bloomberg Talks
Thoma Bravo Co-Founder and Managing Partner Orlando Bravo

WHAT HAPPENED IS AS THE SAS INDUSTRY HAS REALLY TAKEN OFF AND IT'S STILL AT ITS INFANCY, 50% OF THE SYSTEMS ARE STILL ON PREMISE, WE HAVE THIS ENORMOUS OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE THESE BEAUTIFUL COMPANIES AND TRANSFORM IN THAT WAY.

Bloomberg Talks
Thoma Bravo Co-Founder and Managing Partner Orlando Bravo

NOW, WE NEED TO KEEP PROVING

Bloomberg Talks
Thoma Bravo Co-Founder and Managing Partner Orlando Bravo

that we can generate the performance at the scale that we're doing.

Bloomberg Talks
Thoma Bravo Co-Founder and Managing Partner Orlando Bravo

And we've had some wonderful exits in the past at a big scale.

Bloomberg Talks
Thoma Bravo Co-Founder and Managing Partner Orlando Bravo

So it's nice to see somebody do a $55 billion deal because now we can tell our investors we're middle market and we do middle market only and we're really targeted and these things are really small.

Bloomberg Talks
Thoma Bravo Co-Founder and Managing Partner Orlando Bravo

We're like, you see, we told you these companies are, yeah.

Bloomberg Talks
Thoma Bravo Co-Founder and Managing Partner Orlando Bravo

Focus on the business.

Bloomberg Talks
Thoma Bravo Co-Founder and Managing Partner Orlando Bravo

Focus on your investors, but really spend most of your time cold calling all the companies.

Bloomberg Talks
Thoma Bravo Co-Founder and Managing Partner Orlando Bravo

Really focus on the business.