Robert F. Smith
Robert F. Smith is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm focused exclusively on enterprise software companies. He founded Vista in 2000 and oversees more than $100 billion in assets under management, with the firm having completed over 650 transactions. He is known for his philanthropic contributions, including eliminating student loan debt for the 2019 Morehouse College graduating class and becoming the first African American to sign the Giving Pledge.
“Software tastes like chicken, and that's why it's beautiful" — used to illustrate why AI companies are fundamentally less comparable to each other than software companies were”
“The CEO, Robert Smith, would always tell us software tastes like chicken. And that's why it's beautiful. Every software company, when you look under... at the balance sheet, at the P&L, they're all the same.”
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