Private Equity’s Philosopher

Columbia Business School

Robert F. Smith ’94, founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, finds value in the people and places that are most often ignored.

The son of two teachers (both of whom held PhDs), Smith had the background to become an academic, and to this day his interests run wide and deep, and conversations with him often take a turn toward the philosophical.

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