Fresh from being named as the world’s top-performing private equity firm, Financial News spoke to Vista Equity Partners’ fly-fishing CEO about the firm’s strategy, highlights from the last decade and his plans for 2015.

Co-founded in 2000 by former Goldman Sachs technology bankers Robert Smith and Brian Sheth, the Austin, Texas-based firm limits its investments to software, data and technology-enabled businesses and claims that it has never lost money on a deal.