Hey Truth thanks for laying this out for us. I did not know about this guy until now.

“5 things to know about Robert F. Smith, Morehouse donor to pay off Class of 2019’s student loans”

Excerpts:
[Smith, who grew up in Denver, developed an interest in the tech field in high school. When he was a junior, he landed an internship at Bell Labs by calling the company every week for five months until he got a position, according to The Washington Post. During his summer and Christmas breaks, he worked on computers.

Smith earned his degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University, where he became a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. He later snagged his master of business administration degree from Columbia Business School in 1994.

The investor, who now lives in Austin, is the nation’s richest black man, according to Forbes. He’s worth approximately $5 billion. The 56-year-old made his fortune through the private equity firm, Vista Equity Partners, which he founded in 2000. According to the company’s website, Vista currently manages equity capital commitments of more than $46 billion and oversees a portfolio of more than 50 software companies

Before launching Vista, he worked an investment banking job at Goldman Sachs for several years, where he worked on tech mergers and acquisitions for brands such as Apple, Microsoft, Texas Instruments, eBay and Yahoo. ] – Atlanta Journal Constitution, May 20, 2019

Hear! Hear! What an incredible act of charitable giving that will no doubt have a profound impact not on the lives of those graduates who are direct beneficiaries of such a gift…but indeed also the lives of many more people who are (or will be) touched by those graduates.

My first thought when I first heard about this- Outstanding!

Thanks for posting about it DJ.