Last year, the widely followed HEC-Dow Jones ranking listed Thoma Bravo as the industry’s sixth-best performing private equity firm.
The flagship fund Thoma Bravo raised in 2012 has posted a net internal rate of return of 38.8% as of Sept. The long-term numbers are equally impressive. In just the last two years, Thoma Bravo has generated an incredible $29 billion in cash and public stock value on $7 billion invested.
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In September, Thoma Bravo’s assets under management reached $91 billion, doubling in size in two years and outpacing the most recent figures from the other big private equity software and technology specialists, Vista Equity Partners ($81 billion) and Silver Lake ($88 billion). He commands a portfolio of more than 50 software companies that employ 72,000 people and generate combined annual revenues of $21 billion, including control and non-control investments. “This was an example for me of stopping and thinking deeper and broader about a new movement that was currently not applying to us, but I now feel will be applicable in a big way for Thoma Bravo.”Īt the age of 51, Bravo runs Thoma Bravo, which has used a groundbreaking approach to software buyouts to arguably become the hottest private equity firm on the planet. “When I’d socialize, I would come across young people who were heavily involved in crypto projects of all kinds and I learned from the ground up,” says Bravo. Without any in-person meetings to attend, Bravo spent a lot of time talking randomly to people about bitcoin BTCUSD, +1.92%, particularly around Dorado Beach, named for the Spanish word for “golden,” just 23 miles west of the capital of San Juan.
Wandering around in flip flops on sandy stretches of Caribbean coastline on Puerto Rico’s north shore, Bravo found that many of the people he met were passionate about cryptocurrencies and eager to share their views. Orlando Bravo, the billionaire chief of private equity firm Thoma Bravo, had left San Francisco to spend the first months of the pandemic on the island where he grew up. Lloyd is more comfortable, committed, and believable on Street Love, and if taken in small doses, you can add satisfying to the list.While the nation was in lockdown mode in the spring of 2020, the nation’s most successful private equity software investor found himself in Puerto Rico with nothing to do. Producer Jazze Pha offers a winner with his soulful and polished "Certified" while J Lack ( James Lackey) gives the album its most creative moment as he lays broken soul music across "Hazel." Much of Street Love paints Lloyd as a replacement for another J Lack client, Usher, which is much more possible that the half-thug/half-Romeo role he played on his debut. The forced thug posturing is gone and replaced by sweeter lyrics and an entirely convincing playfulness that allows for lines like "Is there something you're not telling me?/Are you the daughter of Frankie Beverly?" ("Get It Shawty") along with a flippant guest shot from Lil Wayne ("You," which samples Spandau Ballet's "True" by way of P.M. Even more important, by never letting the singer out of his comfort zone, the album defines its artist and lays a solid foundation for a long career, even if it just looks like singles and guest appearances on hip-hop tracks at this point. On the other hand, Street Love is actually a much stronger effort than his debut when you tally the number of highlights. The redundant songs start rearing their heads about track number four, with tales of heartache, seduction, and sweetness repeated as if every day were Valentine's Day. With an overabundance of ballads and swagger, cool crooner Lloyd's second effort is just too narrow to recommend to the casual fan of smooth, pillow-talk R&B.
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