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Patrick Byrne: Overstock should have prioritized tech over retail initially
“If I had to do over again, I was probably wrong, or at least my emphasis was on the wrong syllable. I should have been more focused on the technology to begin with.”
Patrick Byrne was rejected by 85 VCs while pitching Overstock
“I was turned down by 85 venture capitalists. At the height of the dot-com boom, when folks were dropping out of Stanford Business School on a one-paragraph business plan, raising a hundred million dollars, here I had run some companies. I had, I thought I had …”