Robert F. Smith '94, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, speaks with Darius Gant ’17 at the Columbia Black Business Students Association's ELEVATE conference on March 25, 2017.
I agree. I grew up not knowing anything about finances. I am a single mom and I am determined to raise my son to be financially independent and responsible. My latest share ❤
Great talk. I have to say the people who solicited Robert Smith on stage were super unprofessional, but then again, how many opportunities will you get to pitch a black billionaire. He's right, we have to get into these fields like STEM and private equity and start to create wealth and opportunity for ourselves. Protest won't close the wealth and achievement gap. Sharing hashtags on twitter won't solve our problems. Marches won't solve our problems. We need to start to build. Glad to see people starting to wake up to this fact.
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First and foremost All praises to The Highest, if you think that way you are lost, like Black All street, because our creator came first, no man came first.
I can literally feel Mr. Smith’s energy through the screen. I appreciate how directly he speaks. This is such an awesome interview! I have numerous takeaways I can use from this. Thanks for sharing!
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I continue to be inspired by and in awe of the brilliant RFS! So much knowledge and wisdom in this video. These are the kinds of videos that need to "go viral" in our community!
You see the mindset of this man. And you can see why he is a major success in life. Black people have to turn their backs on ignorance and dysfunction. And move at a different level. Thats the only chance there will ever be to rise.
Wish it was as easy as saying the few words that you have here. It is improving, however, not nearly fast enough. It is in the mental programs of masses.
So much wisdom in this video. Thank you Columbia for sharing this, and also thanks to Robert F. Smith for loving his community and his craft to share to the world. OOHH SIX!
Very inspiring! How did I not know Robert Smith? A must-know person as a young person trying to get into private equity and investment banking. Thank you!
Don't feel bad. He was (and is, I'm sure) a very private person. Mr. Smith didn't really start to do interviews and such until the past few years or so. He just had his head down grinding.
A Beautiful Journey he mentioned one way in his talk which is “code.org” also check your local area for a STEM organization. Most of their activities are free or have small fees. Good luck.
So very true, music and dancing are the key component to creativity and growth, the music helped me to cope with my Trauma after surviving genocide in Rwanda when I was just a teenager ORPHAN girl without Father, Mother or Grand parents because they were all killed by my RWANDAN PEOPLE. Dancing still helping me even today with my creativities in Business and Entrepreneurship , I am not even talking about innovations ideas to advance my charity of helping Rwanda Orphans at THE WHY DO I EXIST ?/ KUKI NDIHO RWANDA ORPHANS SUPPORT PROJECT and self esteem with Confidence I got from Dancing and listening to Music, Like my High School professor in Rwanda told us in School, Music is the food of our Souls.
33:25 - 38:50 STEM education and training as a major on-ramp of opportunity for economic uplift. But if that on-ramping doesn’t happen now, 20 years from now there will be little to show for it in our community. The opportunity will have been missed, that arbitrage will be diminished, and with longer-term negative repercussions. Whoa! That was a powerful thing he said there. Let’s take heed of this with our children. Also at 10:53, I really appreciate this distinction regarding U.S. economics.
I love the fact that RS is giving hope to underserved kids. The positive benefits of that part of his work might be so great, they won't be measurable, and I hope he keeps up that part of his efforts. And thank you for the excellent interview with RFS, he is a great inspiration.
What an incredible, magnanimous human being. Just love this. When we work together, share stories skills, knowlege, mentor, coach one another.....wow...we can change our world.....exploiting our talent, creativity along the way.
Thank you King this interview King Smith did not disappoint so far so great.💎💎💎💎💎👑👑👑👑🙏🏾Watching black excellence at the highest level🗣💎💎💎👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾✊🏿♥️👑👑👑👑👑 King Smith you did not disappoint
I agree with Robert Smith's statement when he said that "China has bought forward contracts on open land in Africa" because as a Nigerian Born in America, when I go back to Nigeria, I see many Chinese Investors and business man buying land In Nigeria and building Chinese based restaurants and other stores on that land knowing that Nigeria will one day become a thriving society once they get their stuff together.
December 27, 2022 great talk! The interactions at the end were gold ✨👌🏽 and he’s absolutely right about the opportunity being available now for a short time span. We should definitely use all these resources to the fullest extent possible 💯
23.56 "Spot an arbitrage in the market you can take advantage of over a long period of time. Keep the ignorant uninformed. Don't tell everyone how to do it. Build system and barriers so everyone can't come in your marketplave. Ssutain the advantage" - RFS
lol that is what everyone got from this situation, so by definition it is actually the worst (Relatively not in magnitude) I think you should also look into what he spoke about in using technology in the abstract to impact various businesses and add value in a systematic way with software.
100mil dollar scrip African epic taking a dust - l changed my way of looking at the film industry when the English man told me ‘we work only with the people we know’. I did not give up…I’m about to shoot the short part of the script to raise the Money outside USA- to achieve that- & I know studio production value is must. And I know Robert’s Idea is helpful and edifying..
