{"id":314852,"date":"2026-06-21T15:04:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/314852\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T15:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:04:32","slug":"orlando-bravo-built-a-software-investing-empire-now-ai-is-changing-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/314852\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Bravo Built a Software Investing Empire. Now AI Is Changing the Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Orlando Bravo was quick to see the disruptive potential of software, making a series of lucrative bets on the sector that turned him into a billionaire and transformed the buyout shop he leads, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/129626Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Thoma Bravo<\/a>, into an industry powerhouse. Now, the disruption is coming for his own  firm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Miami-based financier is confronting it head-on, seeking to ensure his empire is ready for the era of artificial intelligence \u2014 and reassure investors that a debt-laden bet on online customer surveys, which lost more than $5 billion, is a one-off. The fund that held the investment is lagging behind rivals, and investors are on high alert for other potentially stressed deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando Bravo was quick to see the disruptive potential of software, making a series of lucrative bets on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[131007,4038,131004,131005,33895,741,734,131006,139,127083,141,140,47324,47127,1576],"class_list":["post-314852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-carl-dee-thoma","tag-coupa-software-inc","tag-executives","tag-finance","tag-investing","tag-medallia-inc","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-bravo","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-private-equity","tag-software","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}