Tony Robbins x Robert Smith: The Power of the Playbook - Making Great Companies Extraordinary

Welcome to Holy Grail Investing podcast. Our guest today is the founder and CEO of Vista Partners, a $100,000,000,000 company that has mastered enterprise SAS. The ROI to date is 625%. Gen AI takes that to an order of magnitude. Wow. You know more about this industry than anybody alive. But what does a person do so that they can become more valuable? That is all going to get disrupted. I'm gonna help the audience out here a little bit. They're like, that's what I wanna invest in. But I don't know how to do any of that. But what do you tell your kids to study? Three skills that they have to learn. Pattern recognition. Once you recognize patterns, there's no fear because you know it's not random. Then they gotta learn Nah. Hang on. You gotta save the punchline. You go from this control paradigm to this control paradigm. You succeed at a level most humans will never dream of. When you began, you saw something no one else saw. Here's where it all started. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Holy Grail of Investing podcast with Tony Robbins and Christopher Zirk. We're thrilled that you've tuned in because over the next couple of sessions, we're gonna talk about some of the most interesting things in all of the world of investing, from GP stakes to professional sports to energy to disruptive technology. And what our job is to add as much value to you as we can and to give you some things that will really be valuable to you as you go about your businesses and your investing. I'm Christopher Zook. I'm the founder and chief investment officer of Kaz Investments, and I'm thrilled to be able to cohost today with the one and only Tony Robbins. Tony, thank you for being here. Thanks, Christopher. Listen. I'm very excited for you to join us as well because our guest today is a very special individual. This is a person who's an unbelievable investor, incredible entrepreneur. This is a person that you would think of if you said, who is the best in private equity? He's gotta be in the top three or four or five. He's a philanthropist. He's an engineer. And most importantly, Robert Smith, of course, is the founder and CEO of Vista. I think you're gonna find enormous amount of value out of this session. And this is a man who, give you an idea, has built a $100,000,000,000 AUM company. He's done it by literally developing over 600 private equity, you know, transactions over $300,000,000,000. He's got 80 companies with over 90,000 employees now across a 180 countries. He's Forbes called him one of the 100 great business mind in history. He's been on the Times 100 list. What I'm really touched by as a founder is that you've also been founded for four years in a row as, you know, the founder friendly investor for Inc Magazine for four years in …