Ben Gilbert: belief

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…So they build this thing and then they release it to the Internet. People start using it. It starts getting some adoption, and a couple of companies including Winamp itself reach out to Mark and Adam and are like, hey, do you want to come work here? Can we buy this? I think Microsoft was one of them, too. It was for like a million dollar acquisition offer or something that wasn’t crazy. But these are high school kids. In 2002. But yeah, this is really important because they’re about to graduate. Adam is going to go off to college at Caltech. Mark is going to go off to college at Harvard in the fall. But Mark is not just any student coming into Harvard. He’s like, I can build these things and they have value, and big companies are going to be willing to pay me for them. I don’t need to be that worried about getting a job.…

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