In a stunning commencement speech at Morehouse College, billionaire Robert F. Smith pledged to pay off student loans for every member of the graduating class.
Drop mic. Go home. Raise the bar on every future commencement speaker, ever. Said Elijah Dormeus, a Morehouse College student who’s $100,000 in debt, vanished. ‘God has smiled on me.’ Elijah dropped his head into his heads, cried briefly, then jumped up and whooped and yelled with the others.
I mean, I’ve been tracking Black billionaires for twenty years, and always said you could count them on one hand, and not need your thumb. So how did Smith, living in Austin, Texas, whom Forbes says has an estimated wealth of $5 billion get by me?
“You are responsible for building strong, safe places where our young brothers and sisters can grow with confidence, watch and learn from positive role models, and believe that, they too, are entitled to the American Dream.” -Robert F. Smith @RFS_Vista #MorehouseGrad2019 pic.twitter.com/CeMs6CxQkq
— Morehouse College (@Morehouse) May 19, 2019
Morehouse graduation ceremony 2019
In 2000 he founded Vista Equity Partners, a private equity group that focuses exclusively on investing in software companies.
When it wins it wins big. Smith is chairman and CEO. According to the firm’s website they are currently managing about $46 billion in investments with a portfolio of more than 50 software companies that employ over 60,000 people around the world.
“If you don’t know — now you know”.
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