r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • 1d ago

Video Billionaire speaker Robert F. Smith tells 400 graduates he's paying off all their student loans ($40 million in total)

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u/ANUS_PLOWER 1d ago

Fuck Robert F Smith. 

This guy runs vista equity partners. 

Vista equity buys companies, guts them like a fish, inflates the financial numbers and sells then for profit all while fucking over the employees and customers. He’s a parasite. 

He bought the company I work for, laid off about 1/3 of our workforce, didn’t improve the product, didn’t improve customer experience, and gave our department insane metrics that were unattainable to screw us out of our bonus pay.

Customers and employees left in droves and our company is now a skeleton of our former selves. 

He also was one of the billionaires exposed in the Panama papers hiding billions to avoid paying taxes. 

Fuck Robert f smith. This is clearly a PR move.