Evidence receipt / preference
Published · transcript-backedDoug Leone: preference
18 Feb 2020 Acquired Sequoia Capital Part II (with Doug Leone)
“He explained to me what the ARPANET was, and he explained to me what open systems were. And yes, I went to Prime for a year-and-a-half because I wanted to sell computers on Wall Street because I knew that’s where the money was, but that was where the short-term money was.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Doug Leone
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- preference
- Recorded
- 18 Feb 2020
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…This is pre-Giuliani and Bloomberg. Well, pre- the fact that we became urban and so on, burned out buildings and so on. But that was a lucky break because one thing that’s up there is Columbia. I remember there was a dean of the school of engineering, Dr. Trowe, but still remember his name that came from CMU. He explained to me what the ARPANET was, and he explained to me what open systems were. And yes, I went to Prime for a year-and-a-half because I wanted to sell computers on Wall Street because I knew that’s where the money was, but that was where the short-term money was. Was there a prestige associated with that, or was it just [...]?…
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