Thoughts on Vista Equity Partners ?
Just got invited to a closed Networking Happy Hour event in NYC.
Was wondering what I should expect ? I understand that Vista is one of the best TECH PE shops out there.
Can anyone provide any insight ?
OP here: I am a rising junior, currently working as a Sophomore Investment Banking SA at a BB - Tech
Howd youd get invited damn?
Recruiter directly contacted me through email and LinkedIn
Loved the folks I spoke with in the interview process. Smart shop with an established analyst program with clear visibility up to at least Sr Asso/VP level. Something like 70% of analysts stay on for 6 years. You get worked and have to live in Texas (at least for junior summer, FT can place to Chicago or SF), but analysts get shadow carry and decent comp as far as I can remember. Top name in tech investing.
Analysts don't really model, associates hold the pen and you learn how to cut data for SaaS/enterprise tech companies. You’re generalist across funds, so exposure to all sorts of investment sizes and subverticals up through your senior associate years, where you basically pick a fund to do your work in. If tech investing is an interest of yours, Thoma Bravo is their closest comparison and TB is reputed to have a far inferior culture. Vista is an awesome shop, main con would be location honestly.
No clue about the networking event but this should be some pretty useful background garnered from conversations with like 10 people there with whom I had pretty solid relationships.
How does Silver Lake compare to TB and Vista? In terms of culture and fund performance?
Silver Lake does a wider variety of deals than both, as they don’t strictly focus on software and have done a lot of creative deal structuring. Have heard comp is pretty good (probably better than Vista, not sure on TB), not sure on culture as I think there are differences between east coast / west coast offices, but expect to grind at either
same
Obviously a brand name and everything, but heard/seen they have some bombs in their portfolio that they're covering up through merging with other PortCos / churning bolt-ons. Don't know how widespread that is, so as long as you don't get staffed on those seems like a great place to be.
Their whole “never had a down investment” has to be a little fuzzy. Not going into details but know of a few port cos that should absolutely be down, but clearly it’s a great marketing gimmick so seems like they’re doing what they can to hide it
You mean that failed SPAC that's merged with like 4 other portcos? Hahaha
Same, think they only sent invites to a certain BB
Going tomorrow night plz pm me
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