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

The Tony Robbins Podcast

Tony Robbins

Marketing, Smallbusinessowner, Education, Tonyrobbins, Business

4.4 • 6.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the debut episode of The Holy Grail of Investing, a new podcast from Tony Robbins and Christopher Zook, inspired by their #1 New York Times bestselling book.

In this premier conversation, we sit down with Robert F. Smith, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, to explore how he built one of the most successful private equity firms in the world with over $100 billion in assets under management.

Smith shares the story behind Vista’s rise, how engineering principles inform his investment philosophy, and the how AI is impacting technology companies and creating extraordinary efficiencies.

Watch this episode now on YouTube at @TonyRobbinsLive

Learn more at www.TheHolyGrailofInvesting.com and www.CAZInvestments.com

"The Holy Grail of Investing podcast is about more than just investing—it’s about giving listeners a front-row seat to how some of the world’s greatest investors think,” said Tony Robbins. “These conversations usually happen behind closed doors, and now we are making them available to a much broader audience—even those just starting to explore private market opportunities.”

Hosted by Tony Robbins and investor Christopher Zook, this new podcast offers rare, behind-the-scenes conversations with legendary private market investors—exploring not just how they invest, but why they do what they do.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Holy Girl Investing Podcast.
0:02.0	Our guest today is the founder and CEO of Vista Partners, $100 billion company that is mastered enterprise SAS.
0:09.0	The ROI today is 625%.
0:12.0	Gen AI takes that to an order of magnitude.
0:15.0	Wow.
0:16.0	You know more about this industry than anybody alive.
0:17.0	What is a person do so that they can become more valuable?
0:20.0	That is all going to get disrupted. I'm going to help the audience out here a little bit.
0:24.3	They're like, that's what I want to invest in. But I don't know how to do any of that.
0:27.5	Well, what do you tell your kids to study?
0:29.2	Three skills that they have to learn. Pattern recognition.
0:32.0	Once you recognize patterns, there's no fear because you know it's not random. Now, hang on, you got to save the punchline.
0:42.0	You go from this control paradigm to this control paradigm.
0:44.3	You succeeded to love what most humans will never dream of.
0:46.5	When you began, you saw something no one else saw.
0:47.6	Here's where it all started.
0:55.5	Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Holy Girl of Investing podcast with Tony Robbins and Christopher Zirk.
1:05.9	We're thrilled that you've tuned in because over the next couple of sessions, we're going to 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.
1:15.0	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.
1:16.4	I'm Christopher Zook.
1:19.0	I'm the founder and chief investment officer of Kaz Investments.
1:23.6	And I'm thrilled to be able to co-host today with the one and only Tony Robbins.
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