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David Rosenthal: belief

6 Jun 2022 Acquired American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle)

“I think Don Valentine said Mike Moritz and Steve Jobs were the two best question askers I ever met.”

— David Rosenthal

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David Rosenthal
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
6 Jun 2022
Publisher
Acquired

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…Yeah. I think Don Valentine said Mike Moritz and Steve Jobs were the two best question askers I ever met. Yeah, and I believe it. That's one of the aspects where they're similar. But I also think the similarity of what I saw in my colleagues and what I did is trying to get at the forefront of cultural shifts, even if you don't know what they mean. Just trying to see, okay, these weird movements that are happening in society. Maybe you should be the first person there to talk to these weirdos, these random people. That was the, what's the weird interesting thing that's happening? Now most of that happens on the Internet. That I think is the real shift is at. All the weird, interesting movements in the world now come as Internet-born movements. That's oftentimes what venture capitalists are looking for as well.…

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