Vista scaled software best practices using a McDonald's franchise model
Robert F. Smith · Private Equity Masters 3: Robert F. Smith – Vista Equity Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.202) · Jul 5, 2021 · at 7:17
Vista Equity Partners founder and CEO Robert F. Smith explains the core operational thesis behind founding the private equity firm.
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“So I had the good fortune in that regard to actually evaluate hundreds and numbers of software companies, and one in particular I saw had some standard operating procedures that were used to actually make software companies efficient, and then took those and really adopted them into a methodology of driving it across a number of software companies, not just one, kind of the McDonald's model.”
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