David Rosenthal: uncertainty

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…It's the best. You guys need to do an Acquired on Wawa at some point. We totally should. Total digression. One of my proudest moments in business school, I was in this super boring class. I forget. The title was something like board management or something like that and I was like, oh, I'm a VC, this will be really helpful. It turned out it was about public company board compliance. It was so boring. So I just zoned out the whole quarter. One day, I just completely zoned out and I heard Wawa. I'm like, oh, I know all about this. The professor was like, I don't know why it's called Wawa. My hand goes right up in the air. I can tell you exactly why it's called Wawa. When I was a freshman at Duke, during freshman orientation, they did the thing where they had improv, comedy, or something. All the freshmen went to it and they would call a couple of people up on stage. They'd ask you questions that are like, what do you miss most about your hometown? I was like, Wawa. The six people from Pennsylvania, New Jersey cheered, and everybody else, what is this guy talking about? So that was the beginning of my college career.…

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