Orlando Bravo

Get away from what's the firm going to be in 10 years or 20 years?

What's the strategy?

What's my org structure?

Mentor your people to get the deal, and then figure out a way, a repeatable process, that you can continuously improve the company.

Have your feet on the ground and focus on the business that's right in front of you.

Do the work, do the diligence.

It is so important, and don't be as affected by what everybody thinks.

The answers are sometimes so obvious, investing-wise and operating, that you just need to go to the source and focus on it.

Our group has become much larger.

Now we have $180 billion under management.

We work as hard as possible to run it, just like when we did when we did our first deal at $50 million.

And frankly, the problems that our companies have and the opportunities that our companies have and how we generate a deal and convince a founder or a big company to work with us is the same as it was before.

So remaining true to that is very, very important.