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Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:19:39 David Rosenthal There's a great Michael Moritz quote in Steven Levy's book talking about this particular moment in time.
- ▶ 1:19:47 David Rosenthal It's a very Sir Michael way of putting things.
- ▶ 1:19:50 Ben Gilbert That's a deliciously Michael quote, yes.
- ▶ 1:20:00 David Rosenthal Famously, Kleiner and Sequoia end up splitting the deal, and Michael Moritz and John Doerr, the two most legendary VCs in the world, they team up, they join forces, they split the deal, and they both join the board of Google at the Series…
- ▶ 1:20:43 Ben Gilbert Well, they held a press conference in person with both Sir Michael and John Doerr there.
- ▶ 1:21:01 David Rosenthal It may have been the first one that Michael and John split together, but, like, they had been on boards together before.
- ▶ 1:21:46 David Rosenthal And remember, Larry's older brother had co-founded eGroups, which Moritz had funded at this point.
- ▶ 1:24:46 Ben Gilbert So the quote is from Sir Michael Moritz.
- ▶ 1:25:06 David Rosenthal Apparently, it was not Sir Michael who said it first.
- ▶ 1:42:13 David Rosenthal My favorite story from the whole Google CEO hiring process was sort of the standard playbook here that John and Mike and Sequoia Kleiner would run with founders when
Rolex (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:38:15 David Rosenthal I feel like there's an old, um, Sequoia saying, or at least a Mike Moritz saying, that recessions are the best time to innovate.