>> My name is Matt Thompson, and I work at a private equity firm called Skyview Capital.
So Skyview invests in middle market technology businesses.
So we look for opportunities to buy businesses and then turn them around
and then eventually sell them later.
So my days typically it really depends.
It's always different.
So typically my job involves reading a lot about different opportunities
or reading investment memorandum and then pulling together analysis
on how we can turn around or value this business.
So it's incorporating a lot of qualitative and quantitative information to come
up with a thesis to why we want to invest or not invest in a company.
So when we look at a business, the early stages involve receiving some high level information.
So we read through that.
And then there we'll also so some industry research.
So we'll look on Google or we'll look on Capital IQ.
We'll look on analyst's reports to understand the industry better.
Then based on that and the high level material provided
by the company maybe we'll have a meeting with management.
So during those meetings it's more like 5 hours to a 15-hour session.
We'll get much deeper into understanding the business.
So who are the customers?
Who are the competitors?
What are the products?
What are the macro industry trends facing this business?
And by doing that we get a much better feel for the business.