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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
26 Sept 2019 Acquired Sequoia Capital (Part 1)
“One of them was the IT administrator for GSB and one I think was elsewhere on the campus and networking was just becoming a thing and they were married.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 26 Sept 2019
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Sequoia Capital (Part 1)
Transcript context
…It fits that theses so well. The venture world hadn’t woken up to that just yet. They would and Sequoia would, too, of course, but so much of the DNA comes from this hardware world. For Sequoia certainly, the greatest hardware investment that they make is in 1987. Don invests $2.5 million in an old company called Cisco for 30% of the company. Started on the campus, actually at the GSB at Stanford. Started on campus of Stanford. I can’t remember which is which. One of them was the IT administrator for GSB and one I think was elsewhere on the campus and networking was just becoming a thing and they were married. They were sending messages to one another. This is this amazing romantic story that they had. Jerry rigged the network to be able to send messages to each other at work.…
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