David Rosenthal: belief

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…The only outside capital. The only outside capital into the company before IPO from TVI. Then Dave went on to co-found August Capital where he is a partner emeritus these days. I think Dave was the longest-serving Microsoft Board member besides Bill Gates. Three decades plus. Wow. Oh and I have one more. Thanks to good friend Arvind at Worldly Partners for some of the research that he provided as well. So thanks Arvind. Well with that, you should check out our previous episode, Microsoft Volume I. If you’ve already heard that, check out our AWS episode. We also recommend our Nvidia series. Part one intersects nicely with this era of Microsoft and we tell some of the PC gaming story from the Nvidia angle. Lastly, of course, if you are sitting around right now and you’re thinking, oh no, what should I do next? The answer is acquired.fm/sf. We cannot wait to see you at the Chase Center. Mark fricking Zuckerberg is going to be there. It’s going to be the event of the century in the acquired world. If you’ve always thought like, oh, I’ve always wanted to go to something like Omaha, for the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting where I’ve just wanted to celebrate with other business and technology nerds who also like Acquired, this is going to be the greatest way you could have ever imagined to do that.…

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