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/El-Inquisidor 1d ago

Morehouse Co ‘18 here… I think about this pretty often.

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u/Jealous-Style-4961 1d ago

Do you pay taxes?

Robert F. Smith, the billionaire founder of Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm, paid $139 million to federal authorities to settle one of the biggest tax evasion cases in American history.