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Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 45:27 David Rosenthal Which, depending on who you ask, is either very good or very bad, because in the intervening months, Dave himself decides to throw in another 100,000 dollars to the funding here, and Larry and Sergey meet a former Netscape guy named Ram…
- ▶ 45:55 David Rosenthal Rom had left Netscape and joined a startup called Jungly that Amazon.com then acquired, and so Rom had a little bit of liquidity.
- ▶ 46:49 David Rosenthal So Rahm arranges a meeting, and the next time that Jeff is in Silicon Valley, they all meet at Rahm's house, and similar to Andy Bechdelsheim, Jeff's like, great.
- ▶ 47:00 David Rosenthal Rahm, what are you in for?
- ▶ 47:40 David Rosenthal It's Andy, Dave, Ram, and Jeff.
- ▶ 1:21:26 Ben Gilbert Yeah, I think in the middle of negotiations, they got another term sheet at a hundred and fifty million dollar valuation instead of a hundred, but I think they were sort of already pot committed to Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins, and I…
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 2:23:10 David Rosenthal That business guy from Netscape, his name was Ram Sriram.
- ▶ 2:24:04 David Rosenthal Rom, the business guy from Netscape, I assume through his co-founders, the Stanford CS PhDs, he gets hooked up with two other Stanford computer science PhDs.
- ▶ 2:24:41 David Rosenthal So, Rom's like, sure, you guys seem promising.
- ▶ 2:24:59 David Rosenthal Jeff and Ram kind of stay in touch, and even though they left Amazon, they're friendly.
- ▶ 2:25:04 David Rosenthal Jeff hears about Google, calls up Ram, and he's like, hey, I wanna come meet these guys.
- ▶ 2:25:10 David Rosenthal Ram's like, sure, come on down to Silicon Valley, I'll host you all at my house.
- ▶ 2:25:29 David Rosenthal They all go over to Ram's house.
- ▶ 2:25:36 David Rosenthal Ram, Larry, Sergey, Jeff, Mackenzie.
- ▶ 2:25:42 David Rosenthal Jeff takes Rahm aside, and he's like, hey, I want to put some money in these guys too.
- ▶ 2:25:45 David Rosenthal And Rahm's like, dude, the seed closed six months ago, and like, Kleiner, Sequoia, like, they're circling about doing a Series A, like, Jeff's like, I don't care.
- ▶ 2:26:05 David Rosenthal So Rahm goes to bath for him, and he convinces Larry and Sergey to take another 250,000 dollars of Jeff and Mackenzie's personal money at the seed price.
- ▶ 2:26:56 David Rosenthal I mean, the ROM led this.
- ▶ 2:27:02 Ben Gilbert So you think Ram got like a 10 to 20 X from the Series A?
- ▶ 2:27:07 Ben Gilbert Ram and Jeff, we should say.