Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
16 Jul 2020 Acquired Pinduoduo
“You've got a pretty good network. It might be a better idea, I think you should check out this little startup down in Mountain View.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 16 Jul 2020
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Pinduoduo
Transcript context
…That's fine. As long as it's not Michigan. That's great. Go big 10. Big 10, there we go. While he's there doing his master's in CS at Madison, he continues to intern at Microsoft. Microsoft desperately wants him to come back full-time when he graduates, but William tells him, hey, you've spent a lot of time at Microsoft. You've got the experience there. You've got a pretty good network. It might be a better idea, I think you should check out this little startup down in Mountain View. They're doing more interesting things. It's called Google. Maybe you should see if you can apply there and get a competing offer. He just keeps hitting the lottery over and over and over. I don't say that to imply luck, but he finds his way to the right place, right time over and over again here.…
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