Robert F. Smith's life has taken him from the newly de-segregated classrooms of suburban Denver, to Columbia Business School, Goldman Sachs, and eventually to his own private equity firm, Vista Equity Partners.  On this episode of the David Rubenstein Show, Smith discusses working as an intern at Bell Labs when he was below the minimum age requirement, becoming the first Goldman Sachs employee to focus solely on M&A in the tech sector, and more.

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