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Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 12:01 David Rosenthal So that led to plenty of situations like we talked about on the amazon.com episode of he called Tom Alberg's wife.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 0:02 David Rosenthal In the time between when we recorded this episode and now when we're releasing it, longtime Amazon board member and Madrona Venture Group founder, Tom Allberg, sadly passed away.
- ▶ 0:14 David Rosenthal And we wanted to, instead of our usual funny cold opener here, take a moment and dedicate this episode to Tom.
- ▶ 0:22 Ben Gilbert Tom had such a huge impact on David and my careers.
- ▶ 0:26 Ben Gilbert Tom also had such a huge impact on Seattle and really the whole technology ecosystem helping to build the law firm Perkins Coie and the telecommunications firms Western Wireless and Macaw Cellular that really make up a large part of the…
- ▶ 0:43 Ben Gilbert We also were lucky enough to, uh, have Tom on Acquired, and it was really wonderful getting to spend the time in person with him, gosh, four or five years ago now, David.
- ▶ 0:53 David Rosenthal Tom was the longest serving Amazon board member other than Jeff himself.
- ▶ 1:06 Ben Gilbert Well, I'll remember Tom.
- ▶ 1:07 Ben Gilbert He gave back in so many wonderful ways and this episode is dedicated to you, Tom Allberg.
- ▶ 2:08 Ben Gilbert We've tackled bits and pieces, like our interview with former board member Tom Alberg in the Amazon IPO episode, our episode with Alfred Lin on Zappos, and of course by referencing Bezos' famous 2009 speech about outsourcing anything that…
- ▶ 1:30:32 David Rosenthal So Jeff goes out to raise that first seed round that we did the whole episode with Tom Alberg about back in early acquired days.
- ▶ 1:30:39 David Rosenthal Tom is just the best.
- ▶ 1:30:41 Ben Gilbert Tom is the best.
- ▶ 1:30:47 Ben Gilbert It's so not and it's very listenable and most of that is because Tom is an unbelievable guest.
- ▶ 1:31:14 David Rosenthal So they raised that one million dollar round from a bunch of kind of local business folks in Seattle, of which Tom is one and one of the most involved in the company.
- ▶ 1:32:30 David Rosenthal I'll just quote from Tom here.
- ▶ 1:32:32 David Rosenthal So I come home one night after work at like six PM or something.
- ▶ 1:32:50 David Rosenthal And then Tom says, it was one of John's great strengths, which is his persistence, tells you something about how to sell yourself and show your interest.
- ▶ 1:33:37 David Rosenthal John had what a just the hustle, the persistence, even though he was the legendary John door, he's calling Tom like every 15 minutes calling Tom's wife to get a lead on the deal.
- ▶ 1:34:08 David Rosenthal I don't remember exactly what the structure was, but Tom refers to this on our episode.
- ▶ 1:34:40 David Rosenthal So he goes to talk to Tom, like, what should I do about this?
- ▶ 1:43:32 David Rosenthal You know, Tom talked about this too in our interview with him.
- ▶ 1:50:32 David Rosenthal And we asked Tom on the Amazon IPO episode that we did, why did Jeff and Amazon choose Deutsche Bank over the gold-plated, you know, never get fired for choosing Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley?
- ▶ 1:50:46 David Rosenthal And Tom's answer was,
- ▶ 1:52:24 David Rosenthal The Reggio brothers, when Amazon files for an IPO, they fly out to Seattle and they schedule a dinner with Jeff and Jeff brings along Tom is Tom.
- ▶ 1:55:12 David Rosenthal Go listen to our episode with Tom.
- ▶ 4:13:17 David Rosenthal Certainly Tom was very happy with their Amazon investment at, at that point in time.
- ▶ 4:13:57 Ben Gilbert So then the question becomes, should we grade Tom's investment in Amazon as of 2007?
- ▶ 4:14:04 David Rosenthal Well, unless he sold in 2007, in which case,