Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

. “I’m called the king of Silicon Valley. You are now the bumbling dunce of Silicon Valley. If Marc Andreessen barely knows Tom Perkins you can be assured Mr. Perkins is not the king of anything in Silicon Valley. Is Silicon Valley to blame. I’m sorry, Mr. Perkins.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

She was president of the UJA in Sacramento – the United Jewish Appeal. Then she opened a bakery and a second bakery and then a restaurant – in Sacramento. There was one in Silicon Valley, unsurprising, one in Chicago, and there was this group out of the south of France that served all of Europe.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2010

But your airplane that is heading from JFK to SFO and is currently above Denver might get preempted by a regional jet coming from Sacramento to San Francisco and even though you took off first he might still land before you. As one prominent partner in a well known Silicon Valley VC fund recently told me, “I hate Tuesday mornings.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Our wrap-up day will be hosted in San Francisco and will focus on exposing our geographically diverse teams to the epicenter of venture capital within Silicon Valley. Our kickoff day will be hosted in New York and will focus on establishing inter-cohort relationships while commencing our pre-seed tailored programming.

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JULY 17, 2017

Yesterday I watched Kumail Nanjiani’s (of Silicon Valley the TV show fame) biopic “The Big Sick” about his life growing up Pakistani-Muslim in Chicago as a struggling, young comedian when his white girlfriend becomes sick and he has to spend time with her family and deal with interracial, inter-religious rituals and norms.

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OCTOBER 10, 2010

Workers in middle & low-income America can’t get jobs while Silicon Valley can’t get enough high-quality developers. I grew up in Sacramento, CA where nobody that I knew sent their kids to private schools. We already have a jobs gap. Please go see the film. Appendix (personal note only for those interested).

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