David Rosenthal: preference

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…IDEO, right? Yeah, founder of the d.school at Stanford and professor there and founded IDEO before that. D.school, I have a bunch of personal history having gone to Stanford for business school, the d.school normally only admits grad students, like undergrads can’t take d.school classes. But somehow, Evan manages to get David to be his advisor. And that’s not the only cool thing he does as an undergrad. He manages to find his way into becoming an auditor for a class at the business school, Strategy and Management 354, I believe, called Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital, which was my favorite course in business school. It was awesome. It was taught by Peter Wendell who was one of the founders of Sierra Ventures and was a long-time venture capitalist and then co-taught by Eric Schmidt and Raymond Nasr who was Google’s first Head of Communications and worked for Eric both at Novell before Google and met Eric. And it was an amazing class. We had amazing guest speakers come. People like Meg Whitman, like Biz Stone, like Peter Fenton, Scott Cook. And Scott Cook, when he came, Evan was there. Actually he was so taken by the young Evan Spiegel that he hired him to be an intern to work on a project that he wanted to launch at Intuit. Wow. So no doubt a special individual even before Snapchat.…

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