student loans: Smith, who is black, is the founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm that invests in software, data and technology-driven companies. ; On behalf of the eight generations of my family that have been in this country, we're gonna put a little fuel in your bus, the investor and philanthropist told graduates in his morning address, according to The Japan Times. This is my class, 2019. Robert F. Smith, this year's commencement speaker, made the announcement while addressing nearly 400 graduating seniors of the all-male historically black college in Atlanta. And my family is making a grant to eliminate their student loans. Then the graduates broke into the biggest cheers of the morning. The announcement immediately drew stunned looks from faculty and students alike.
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