Long-Term Horizon
An important distinguishing element of our firm is our long-term
investment horizon. General Atlantic only makes investments where we believe that we can
help the entrepreneur and management team build a market leader over 5 to 10
years. We invest with a view towards maintaining our equity positions for a significant
period of time whether a company is public or private. Once a private company
goes public, we remain active board members for many years after the IPO. The
majority of our aggregate gain is realized in the years following the IPO.
Our ability to make long-term commitments is directly related to our unique sources
of capital. We are not structured as a typical institutional fund, instead we
have a select small group of non-institutional capital partners (primarily a
select group of high-net-worth families) who provide us with significant financial
resources and an open-ended time horizon. This has allowed us to be thoughtful,
opportunistic and patient investors.
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“My relationship with General Atlantic dates back to
our first meeting in 1982 – and they have been partners in the truest sense
of the word ever since.”
Mario
Morino,
Founder, Morino Associates
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