Elijah Dormeus was graduating from Morehouse College in Atlanta when he learned billionaire Robert Smith would pay off his $100,000 in student loans.

The 2025 Summit will feature an elite lineup of speakers including Robert F. Smith, founder of private equity firm Vista Equity Partners, who made history at Morehouse College in 2019 as a ...

Robert Smith is the billionaire who gave the 2019 commencement speech at Morehouse and announced that he was paying off all student loan debt for the entire graduating class.

ATLANTA, GEORGIA – MAY 19: Robert F. Smith receives and Honorary Degree during the Morehouse College 135th Commencement at Morehouse College on May 19, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia.

2019 Morehouse College graduates react with excitement after learning their student loan debt would be paid off by billionaire Robert Smith who delivered the commencement address.

Robert F. Smith has quietly made a flurry of court motions to seal evidence in the epic tax evasion case where he’s a cooperating witness — and insiders are scratching their heads.

When the billionaire Robert Smith settled one of the biggest tax fraud cases ever, Vista Equity Partners had already braced them. Solid returns helped, too.

Visate Equity's Robert Smith of Austin is best known for paying off the college debt of Morehouse College graduates in 2019.(Ricky Carioti / The Washington Post) U.S. prosecutors and Internal ...

In September 2019, Vista Equity Partners CEO Robert F. Smith followed through on his pledge, paying $34 million to settle the loan debt for the nearly 400 students who graduated that spring from ...

Robert F. Smith, the Denver native whose tech investing made him a multi-billionaire, is set to avoid prosecution for tax evasion after reaching a $139 million settlement with the government ...

Robert Smith, the billionaire who went viral last year for paying off the debt of students at Morehouse College, admitted to an illegal scheme to conceal income and evade taxes by using offshore ...

Billionaire Robert F. Smith has been hailed as a brilliant investor who built Vista Equity Partners into a private equity powerhouse and a generous philanthropist lauded for paying off the student ...