This Month Forbes Magazine portraits Orlando Bravo of PE firm Thoma Bravo in this front cover magazine article Meet Wall Street’s Best Dealmaker: New Billionaire Orlando Bravo (81, 844 views so far).
” In February, the French business school HEC Paris, in conjunction with Dow Jones, named Thoma Bravo the best-performing buyout investor in the world after studying 898 funds raised between 2005 and 2014. According to public data analyzed by Forbes, its funds returned 30% net annually, far better than famous buyout firms like KKR, Blackstone and Apollo Global Management .”
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People immediately jumped-in with their “thoughts”, and ➜
↤ wanted my “input”. Input..like what ? ?
-You either speak Spanish (other lang.) or you don’t
-You either play(ed) tennis (some sport) or you didn’t
-You either worked at a BB (bulge-bracket) firm or you didn’t
-You either went to a M7 (Magnificent 7) or you didn’t
This guy Bravo blew all the candles out. Most of us couldn’t meet that performance burden on all single points.
Wake up ! Wake up from the self-pity and mental masturbation
The trouble with world-class models is they are world-class.
And world-class is not the world that you and I live in.
Instead, I submit to you, build your own class.
It may not be the Ferrari and Lambo class, but it will be yours. Until then, I’ll listen to Boris Brejcha .