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Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 1:15:13 David Rosenthal He brings on Jeff Skoll, who is a newly minted MBA from Stanford Business School, to come in and be the quote unquote business guy, meaning literally like open the checks and cash them.
- ▶ 1:16:03 David Rosenthal So Pierre after he brings on Jeff's like, actually, you know, okay, I'm open to building this as a business.
- ▶ 1:16:25 David Rosenthal And he remembers Bruce from the ink days, but he and Jeff, they go around Sand Hill.
- ▶ 1:17:10 David Rosenthal They give Pierre and Jeff a term sheet to invest 6.7 million dollars total in the company in a series A financing at a twenty million dollar pre-money
- ▶ 1:17:23 David Rosenthal Pierre and Jeff have one other term sheet, a competing term sheet, shall we say, but the terms they offer are a little different.
- ▶ 1:17:44 David Rosenthal Jeff Skoll had worked very briefly after graduating from Stanford GSB for a few months before Pierre recruited him to come help open the mail at eBay.
- ▶ 1:18:35 David Rosenthal The reason you would get acquired is they offer Pierre and Jeff
- ▶ 1:20:09 David Rosenthal Equity-backed loans to Pierre and Jeff in the amount of 750,000 dollars each as a way to, like, prevent them essentially, give them an incentive not to take the acquisition offer from Knight Ritter.
- ▶ 1:20:34 Ben Gilbert If this Washington Post article is true, is a total of 1.5 million dollars was paid to Pierre and Jeff to say, hey, make yourselves comfortable.