David Rosenthal: recommendation

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…That’s true. The open web changed the hard requirement on that. And I think Sean, as bitter as he was about his own experience, he probably also recognized that, and recognized that the Facebook and Mark had the potential to start a new paradigm of how to do this differently. Sean says to Mark, look, if you just go out on your own, that’s what’s going to happen. I am going to take you under my wing and make sure that that does not happen. I’m going to help you reset up the company so that you permanently control the board and no one can ever fire you because you are what is important here. I’m going to help you go about fundraising, but I’m going to make sure we find the right people who are cool with that stipulation number one, because if you go try and do it by yourself, you don’t know enough, you don’t know these people, you’re not going to find the right folks. It’s wild. Sean was also in a position to take advantage of Mark and the company, and he didn’t. There was some nice self-interest in all of this. It’s not like this was charitable.…

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