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Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 41:29 Ben Gilbert Columbia had CU Community.
- ▶ 58:49 David Rosenthal And he specifically chooses Columbia because, Ben, as you said, there was an existing competitor there.
- ▶ 59:45 Ben Gilbert By the way, their strategy once they did win at a school like Columbia was to go figure out all the schools that were, like, closest to Columbia in terms of network connections, and then win there, too, to kind of, like, build a moat…
- ▶ 1:00:11 David Rosenthal The other interesting thing about going to Columbia, which they do three weeks after the launch at Harvard, 22 days.
- ▶ 1:00:24 David Rosenthal They set up Columbia as a completely different network than Harvard.
- ▶ 1:03:26 David Rosenthal Do you know what else Mark does on the same evening that they launch Columbia?
- ▶ 1:04:43 David Rosenthal So, next couple days after Columbia launches, Facebook launches at Stanford, at Yale.
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:11:19 Ben Gilbert So you and I, then, are guest lecturers at Columbia?
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 25:57 David Rosenthal He works for this company called Fytel, which had been founded by a couple Columbia computer science professors and was developing like a very, very early network technology for high-speed trading applications.
- ▶ 31:25 David Rosenthal Shaw, was a Stanford computer science PhD from the eighties, who then went on to become a computer science professor at Columbia University.
- ▶ 32:14 David Rosenthal In 1986, he left Columbia to join Morgan Stanley and then started D.E.
Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner) · Acquired
- ▶ 15:02 David Rosenthal And then he had to scramble, and that's how he ended up at Columbia, and of course, the rest is history.
Standard Oil Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 1:49:00 David Rosenthal I didn't realize it was Columbia University's campus, um, there.
- ▶ 1:49:06 David Rosenthal And, uh, when Junior decided to get in and start building, developing and building Rockefeller Center, they lease it from Columbia, and then they ultimately buy it.