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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
22 Apr 2024 Acquired Microsoft Volume I
“I think part of it too had to do with the fact that Microsoft was up in Seattle.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 22 Apr 2024
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Microsoft Volume I
Transcript context
…I've always heard wonderful, wonderful things about Dave, and I think everybody really did love him and see his value. But man, to be a venture capitalist in the 1980s and 1990s, oh, man, you couldn't lose. It's pretty crazy. I think part of it too had to do with the fact that Microsoft was up in Seattle. The VCs just weren't traveling. Dave was young and he was single. Don Valentine famously had the rule. They didn't invest in any company that you couldn't bicycle to from Sand Hill Road.…
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