David Rosenthal: evaluation

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…And they kept the ghost. I’m pretty sure Brown actually came up with the ghost logo. That was his contribution before he got kicked out of the company. Yep, I think that’s right. So one other thing happens in the fall as Stanford classes are starting again and it turns out to be really important. And that’s that Evan’s mom, this is all according to articles on the internet including a big really good profile in Forbes on Evan Spiegel that there’s a lot of resource material here, Evan’s mom tells her niece who’s in high school in Orange County, so this is Evan’s cousin who’s a high schooler in Orange County about this app that Evan is working on and her niece downloads it and thinks it’s really cool and starts using it with her friends in high school. And one of the reasons that they start using it is that you don’t need to use it on a phone. You can use it on an iPad because it works on iPads too and with the iPads that their school there, Tony Private School in Orange County had given them… they had them locked down so you couldn’t use iMessage. Yeah, I think I read something they also made it so you couldn’t install Facebook.…

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