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every year anyone Ted Seides 34David Breach 17Robert F. Smith 15Tom Lenehan 7Michael Sidgmore 6Wylie Fernyhough 2Savneet Singh 2Steve Moseley 1Ravi Viswanathan 1Michael Rees 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Vista Equity Partners comes up
David Breach – Software Specialist Enters Private Wealth (Private Wealth 6, EP.450)
- ▶ 6:50 Ted Seides My guest on the sixth episode of Private Wealth is David Breach, the president and chief operating officer of Vista Equity Partners, a leading specialist in enterprise software investing with over a hundred billion dollars in assets. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:18 David Breach Robert had formed Vista in 2000. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:35 David Breach So when I joined Vista, I had a deep transactional background that was very helpful. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:30 Ted Seides Let's turn to Vista.
- ▶ 21:12 David Breach When Robert started the firm 25 years ago, his two fundamental thesis points were, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:02 David Breach So as we thought about wealth, our first question was, we don't want to cannibalize any opportunity for our institutional investors because they are the backbone of our firm and our most critical relationships and partners. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:39 David Breach We've been very disciplined as Vista has grown. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:03 Ted Seides As well known as the Vista brand is in the institutional space, it's probably equally not known in the wealth space. 6 times in the scene
Kipp deVeer – Scaling for Private Wealth Globally in Credit (Private Wealth 5, EP.449)
- ▶ 16:04 Kipp deVeer Vista does that.
Michael Sidgmore – Alternatives Go Mainstream (Private Wealth 1, EP.443)
- ▶ 21:31 Michael Sidgmore Vista, a scaled specialist. 6 times in the scene
Mitchell Green - Lead Edge of Harnessing Networks (EP.429)
- ▶ 35:37 unnamed speaker The person who runs it was at Vista for many years. 2 times in the scene
WTT - NAV Loans: Canary or the Gold Mine?
- ▶ 2:50 Ted Seides Vista and Finastra. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:14 Ted Seides Vista's NavLoan exemplifies this story.
- ▶ 13:02 Ted Seides For every VISTA Nav loan, there are probably 10 used to cure the woes of a GP.
Ravi Viswanathan – Venture Secondaries and Growth Capital at NewView (EP.327)
- ▶ 36:23 Ravi Viswanathan And these folks like Vista, Tomo Bravo, and others are arming themselves with tens of billions.
Gregg Lemkau - The Evolution of MSD (Capital Allocators, EP.291)
- ▶ 8:31 Gregg Lemkau The tech M&A business, and it's fascinating, it was a guy named Mark McMorris, who went on to go work at General Atlantic for a long time, and then Robert Smith, who eventually went on to go found Vista Equity, and me, the three of us went…
Year in Review 2022 (Capital Allocators, EP. 289)
- ▶ 22:21 Ted Seides Smith, Monty Soroya, and Michael Fosna from Vista Equity Partners about the deal-making and operating environment for private enterprise software companies
Michael Rees – Inside GP Stakes at Dyal Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.278)
- ▶ 37:22 Michael Rees And there's not a lot different from our first deal with Providence and Vista.
Tom Lenehan – Taking the Helm at the Wallace Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.246)
- ▶ 42:12 Tom Lenehan That is a lesson that I learned at Rockefeller, I learned it at Common Fund, I learned it at Vista Equity Partners, you name it, that was just be ready well in advance of the crisis.
Savneet Singh – The Operator/Investor whose Software is Feeding the World (Capital Allocators, EP.220)
- ▶ 22:13 Savneet Singh I discovered Vista. 2 times in the scene
Wylie Fernyhough – Private Equity Stakes (Capital Allocators, EP.208)
- ▶ 6:37 Wylie Fernyhough And I would say the Vista investment really was kind of the, the game changer there.
- ▶ 30:02 Wylie Fernyhough I mean, if you bought a stake in Vista back seven, eight years ago, you've probably done pretty well.
Private Equity Masters 3: Robert F. Smith – Vista Equity Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.202)
- ▶ 4:30 Ted Seides Smith, the founder, chairman, and CEO of Vista Equity Partners. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:50 Ted Seides Why don't we start with, I'd love to just have you go back into your background and what got you from wherever you were to forming Vista, what, 20 years ago now? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:16 Robert F. Smith And I think that's one of the things that we provide as Vista.
- ▶ 24:15 Robert F. Smith I think it's 400, over 400 executives who've been on their second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth tour of duty at a Vista company.
- ▶ 33:17 Robert F. Smith I always tell our senior executives and our teams at Vista, we have to think about the absolute best that that company can be.
- ▶ 36:48 Robert F. Smith The men and women at Vista have been doing this, many of them for 15 plus years, and have a good sense for how we should evaluate it, and then we make some decisions on that basis. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:41 Robert F. Smith Well, we do the exact same thing within Vista, and we spend, I think, a disproportionate amount of time relative to what I hear other competitors do in the marketplace or other private equity firms do to train our people, because I know a… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:16 Robert F. Smith One of the few organizations that anyone in the companies can actually take in nanodegrees and artificial intelligence through our Vista University construct.
- ▶ 42:04 Robert F. Smith And so I think it was nine years ago or so, almost 10 years ago, we said we need to form a credit business to not just support Vista, but the industry. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:30 Robert F. Smith And we'll continue to do that, and at some point in time, you'll probably see some announcement about Vista has embarked on a deal in one form or another involving a SPAC, but we look and they are an interesting way to participate in the…
- ▶ 49:54 Ted Seides So as you look out for the next 20 years, how do you evolve the next generation of leaders at Vista? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:20 Robert F. Smith And we as Vista want to be at the forefront of that.
Innovation in Private Markets 1: Steve Moseley – The Space in Between GPs and LPs at Alaska Permanent Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.192)
- ▶ 47:29 Steve Moseley And so if, say, Toma Bravo or Vista is syndicating a SaaS deal,
Tom Lenehan – Perpetual Thinking at Rockefeller University (Capital Allocators, EP.04)
- ▶ 24:50 Tom Lenehan Going to Vista Equity Partners, it was literally down the street, down California Street, maybe four or five blocks closer to the Ferry Building. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:09 Tom Lenehan But I thought, wow, I could actually do what I do now from the LP side and actually back people like Avista or, you know, groups that I applied to and they would never consider me as a principal investor like GTCR and HIG and Golden Gate,…
- ▶ 44:06 Tom Lenehan You know, like a Stone Point who just does financial services or a Vista that just does technology.
- ▶ 55:47 Tom Lenehan And so that, that the cold calling, you know, that I did at Vista and other places that helped.