Thoma Bravo
How Thoma Bravo discovered that every bloated software company had the same structural problem and built a playbook to fix it.
In two thousand three, a database software company in Massachusetts had ten million dollars revenue and two percent margins. Engineers built features brilliantly. Sales operations barely existed. Marketing spent wastefully. Every software company looked identical, bloated and dysfunctional. The structural problem was simple: engineers didn't care about profit. Thoma Bravo saw opportunity inverted from traditional buyout logic. Manufacturing needed capital and labor cuts. Software needed operational tightness only. A company with twenty million revenue at three percent margins could hit forty million with eighteen percent margins. Cost structure was plastic. Product bloat could disappear. Sales discipline would materialize.
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