The ability to make good decisions comes from wisdom.

Wisdom is gained from making bad decisions.

I was at that cascadia conference and getting to visit LCM was the most amazing and unexpected treat I could have ever imagined. It was an entire evening of geeked out bliss. I can't thank you enough for making that happen. The talks were all great but this for me was the highlight of the conference.

What podcast was that? Sounds legit! I'm always on the hunt for new dev focused podcasts.

I don’t remember the episode unfortunately. It was an episode of Software Engineering Radio (http://www.se-radio.net/)

Thoma Bravo is and let me tell you why.

The last company I worked at went through an acquisition with Thoma Bravo and the very next day after acquisition was confirmed we walked into the office and there were security guards in suits with ear pieces patrolling the office. At 9am they locked half of us in conference rooms and told us that everyone who wasn't in a conference room was getting laid off. We weren't allowed to leave the conference rooms for an hour out of "respect" for everyone gathering their stuff into boxes and they said that the security was there for "our safety". Thoma Bravo is currently bleeding that company dry and running it on a skeleton crew while it slowly circles the drain.

This experience has made me super wary of private equity firms in general but this company in particular.

I guess Compuware, Detroit / Dynatrace.

Or Riverbed.

Having several similar products ... you know what it means: https://thomabravo.com/portfolio/all/current/

Several similar products indeed. Since I was at none of the above it seems they have a track record now and people should know what to expect.

I guess we will know in 24 hours what happens with Qlik then.

That's terrible!

Attachmate which owns SUSE Linux is another one of Thoma Bravo's creatures btw

Awesome, thank you.