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Published · transcript-backedDoug Leone: evaluation
18 Feb 2020 Acquired Sequoia Capital Part II (with Doug Leone)
“He loved the sales approach because a great company has products from the inside out and the customers from the outside in, and he read correctly that I’d be a hustler but not in the word hustler that I would hustle, that I was smart, I was human, and he knew the question was can we reprogram him?”
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- Speaker
- Doug Leone
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 18 Feb 2020
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…That’s terrifying. And then he said, “What else?” I laughed. I said, “Don, what do you mean what else? I just told you everything.” But you know? He liked how genuine I was, I think. He loved the sales approach because a great company has products from the inside out and the customers from the outside in, and he read correctly that I’d be a hustler but not in the word hustler that I would hustle, that I was smart, I was human, and he knew the question was can we reprogram him? Can we break them down into pieces and will he build himself up? Doug, what do you think (in retrospect) are the differences between what has made you an amazing technology investor versus what you thought would make an amazing technology investor at that point in time?…
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