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Webb: Maynard Webb invests $5M to $7M of personal capital annually
“I'm investing five to seven million a year, which is a lot of my personal money, and so I'm very selective in going deeper into later rounds.”
Webb: eBay evaluated the Skype acquisition using a waterline risk framework
“When we were looking to buy Skype at eBay, we used that analogy to say, okay, if it doesn't work, is it going to hit us above the waterline where it's going to be ugly and we're going to have to fix it, but it's fixable? Or is it going to hit us below the wate…”