Robert F. Smith (Investor) Bio, Wiki, Age, Vista Equity Partners, Forbes, Wife, Net Worth, Children, Books, Foundation, and Quotes

Robert F. Smith (Investor) Biography

Robert Fredrick Smith (born December 1st, 1962) is an American billionaire businessman, philanthropist, chemical engineer, and investment banker. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of private equity company Vista Equity Partners. In 2018, Robert was ranked by Forbes as the 163rd richest person in America. He was No. 480 on Forbes 2018 list of the world’s billionaires, with a Net Worth of US$6.7 billion.

Fredrick was also included in Vanity Fair’s New Establishment List. In 2017, Fredrick was declared by Forbes as one of the 100 greatest living business minds. He was declared ”Executive of the Year” by the 2019 PitchBook Private Equity Awards. The award acknowledged Fredrick’s $34 million pledge to eliminate the student loans of the 2019 class of Morehouse College, saying that ”even in a world where charitable giving from private equity executives is commonplace, the speech stood out.”

He was also acknowledged as one of the 50 people ”who defined 2019” on The Bloomberg 50 List. In a 2018 cover story, Forbes declared Fredrick the wealthiest African-American, surpassing Oprah Winfrey.

Robert F. Smith Age and Birthday

Fredrick was born on December 1st, 1962 in Denver, Colorado, in the United States. He is currently at the age of 58 as of 2020. He always celebrates his birthday on December 1st, every year.

Robert F. Smith Height and Weight

Robert currently stands at an estimated height of 178 cm in meters- 1.78 m in Feet Inches- 5′ 10” and an estimated weight of 75 kg in Pounds- 165.35 Ibs. We are keeping tabs and will update this information once we get his other boy measurements.

Robert F. Smith Education

Fredrick was enrolled at Carson Elementary School and East High School in Denver. While in high school, he applied for an internship at Bell Labs but was told the program was aimed for college students. Robert endured, calling each Monday for five months. When he was still a student from M.I.T. did not show up, he got the position and that season he developed a reliability test for semiconductors.

Robert F. Smith Parents

Robert was born a fourth-generation Coloradoan to Dr. William Robert Smith his father and Dr. Sylvia Myma Smith his mother, who were both school teachers with PhDs. He was brought up in a dominant African, middle-class neighborhood in Denver. When he was a toddler, his mother carried him at the March on Washington, where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his ”I Have a Dream” speech.

Robert F. Smith Wife

Robert got married to his first wife, fellow Cornell alum Suzanne McFayden Smith, in 1988. They were together for 22 years before they divorced in 2010; their divorce was finalized in 2014. Robert married Hope Dworaczyk, a former Playboy playmate, healthy living lawyer, and fashion editor, on July 25th, 2015.

Children

He has three kids with his first wife, Zoe Smith, Eliana Smith, and Max Smith. Fredrick also has two sons with his wife Hope, Hendrix Robert Smith, born on December 19th, 2014, and Legend Robert Smith, born on March 16th, 2016.

Robert F. Smith Facts and Body Measurements

Full Names: Robert Fredrick Smith
Age/How Old: 58 years old
Date of Birth: December 1st, 1962
Place of Birth: Denver, Colorado, in the United States
Birthday: December 1st,
Fathers Name: Dr. William Robert Smith
Mothers Name: Dr. Sylvia Myma Smith
Marital Status: married to Hope Dworaczyk
Children: He has three kids with his first wife, Zoe Smith, Eliana Smith, and Max Smith. Fredrick also has two sons with his wife Hope, Hendrix Robert Smith, born on December 19th, 2014, and Legend Robert Smith, born on March 16th, 2016.
Profession: Investor
Nationality: American
Height: 178 cm in meters- 1.78 m in Feet Inches- 5′ 10”
Weight: 75 kg in Pounds- 165.35 Ibs.
Known For: He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of private equity company Vista Equity Partners.

Robert F. Smith Career

After serving at Air Products & Chemicals, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and later at Kraft General Foods as a chemical engineer, where he acquired two European patents, he went to Columbia Business School. Fredrick acquired an MBA with honors specializing in finance and marketing. From 1994 – 2000, he joined Goldman Sachs in technology investment banking, first in New York City, and then in Silicon Valley.

He advised on over $50 billion in merger and acquisition operations with companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Texas Instruments, eBay, and Yahoo. He was the first person in the Goldman Sachs San Francisco office to focus solely on technology merges and acquisitions.

Robert F. Smith Books

All is Swell: Trust in Thelma’s Way – 1999
Falling for Grace: Trust at the End of the World – 1999
Love’s Labours Tossed: Trust and the Final Fling – 2000
Bitten: A Romantic Comedy – 2008
Baptists at Our Barbecue – 1996

Robert F. Smith Foundation

Robert is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Vista Equity Partners. Vista now manages equity capital communications of over $26Bn and oversees a portfolio of over 35 software companies that employ over 42,ooo people worldwide. Under Mr. Smith’s leadership, Vista has exclusively focused on the enterprise software, data, and technology-enabled solutions sectors.

For the second time in a row, in November 2015, Vista was named as the world’s No. 1 performing private equity company, according to the HEC-Dow Jones annual ranking conducted by Professor Oliver Gottscalg. Previously, Robert served for Goldman Sachs in Tech M&A and Kraft General Foods, where he earned four patents. Mr. Smith works as the Chairman of Carnegie Hall, founding director and President of the Fund II Foundation, Chairman of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, Member of the Board of Overseers of Columbia Business School, and as a Member of the Cornell Engineering College Council, among others.

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Robert F. Smith Quotes

“I’m here to tell you that, by virtue of your being here today, by virtue of walking across that stage – you are enough.”
“Use your skills, your knowledge, your instincts to serve – to go change the world in the way that only you can.”
“You got to have grit. And grit mean getting turned away from thing 14, 16 times, calling someone every two weeks, every day for 5 months and then finally it materializing in something that you want.”
“This is the first time in history you can create wealth and not have access to capital. You just need intellectual property. A blogger who has a large audience can create wealth by attracting advertisers.”
“Intelligence can create huge profits, and in fact, you can actually make more money being smart than you can be strong or fast.”
“Every day I need you to set a new goal.”
“The importance of developing intellectual property can not be underestimated.”
“You are enough to be who you want to be and to create what you want to create.”
“Put action to support the intention, don’t say I want to be a millionaire but don’t take the activities to do it.”
“Have the vision of what you want to become, but you have to put consistent action behind that vision in order for that to manifest and it as to be consistent.”
“If you get too much help you never really figure out how to do things and you don’t develop the grit.”
“Fight through those problems.”
“If you can’t solve easy problems now, you will not be able to solve difficult problems later.”
“We can transcend the script of a pre-defined story, and pave the way for the future that we design. We just need to tap that power, that conviction, that determination within us.”
“Not everyone wants to make the sacrifice in the trade-off to become wealthier, and the first part of that trade-off is savings and investment and time.”

Robert F. Smith Net Worth

Mr. Smith Net Worth is currently estimated at $5 billion, according to Forbes. Of the 2, 153 people on the Forbes 2019 list of the world’s billionaires, 13 were black.

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