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Delaware's Chancery Court dismissed a stockholder challenge to Robert F. Smith's Vista Equity over its $4.6 billion take-private of cybersecurity firm KnowBe4.
Sherrese Clarke Soares turned 15 years at Morgan Stanley into a $2.67 billion music and entertainment investment empire she built from scratch.
Bruce Hampton grew up in Cleveland, played Big Ten football and ranked first in his finance class. Then he went to Wall Street and never looked back.
Howard Sanders walked away from Citigroup in 2011 with a plan and a conviction. Auldbrass Partners, now worth $1.3 billion, is what happened next.
Marques Torbert grew up with no connections to finance, built a $350 million company, then launched a private equity firm.
Dr. Laurence Morse turned a two-person startup in Connecticut into one of America's largest Black-owned private equity firms managing $10.8 billion.
Billionaire Robert F. Smith controls a tech empire through Vista Equity Partners. Here are seven major companies currently under his vast influence.
Robert F. Smith built Vista Equity Partners into a $107 billion software powerhouse. He is the wealthiest Black person in the United States.
Sycamore Partners co-founder Stefan Kaluzny turned distressed retail into a billionaire-making machine. Forbes now pegs his fortune at $1.3 billion.
Sengal Selassie left Goldman Sachs to found Brightwood Capital, a minority-owned private credit firm now managing more than $6 billion.