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This talk by @Sequoia founder, Don Valentine, is worth an hour of your time.
"I knew the future…I spent 10-12 years in the semiconductor business. All of the products that are here [Sequoia's early investments] operate on microprocessors."
"I knew the future…I spent 10-12 years in the semiconductor business. All of the products that are here [Sequoia's early investments] operate on microprocessors."
"I came from the world where they invented the microprocessor…
We spent huge amounts of time thinking about what applications we should attack in which order…all microprocessor driven."
We spent huge amounts of time thinking about what applications we should attack in which order…all microprocessor driven."
"Almost every significant company we were involved with we understood what it is they were going to use [microprocessors for]...and it was relatively easy to aim the entrepreneurs at things that were silicon intensive because that was the technological future."
Also Don Valentine is hilarious.
