Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: uncertainty
28 Sept 2022 Acquired Benchmark Part I
“I don't know if he did others before. But if Webvan wasn't his first, it was certainly among the first right after he arrived.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 28 Sept 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Benchmark Part I
Transcript context
…Oh, is it? I don't know if he did others before. But if Webvan wasn't his first, it was certainly among the first right after he arrived. I'm just going to open up eBoys here. For those who don't know, who have not heard of the book eBoys, it is the authorized history of Benchmark up until 2000, where the author actually sat with the partners for the better part of two years, fully sanctioned, to observe conversations in partner meetings. When it comes out, it's not the book that they thought it was. It is a little bit more gossipy and interpersonal, and definitely characterizes each person to be a little bit more tropey than they would be in real life. It is both looked on as a lot of the facts are right, but also, there's a lot of drama.…
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