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He says that at the beginning of the summer the Start Fund’s backers, Yuri Milner and Ron Conway, had made $150,000 investments in startups that in almost every case were undeserving.
Randall Stross • The Launch Pad
Among Kelly Johnson’s strengths was a sure grasp of what mattered to his people and what didn’t. Most of them were engineers and tinkerers who hated paperwork, which he cut to an absolute minimum.
Patricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
“Well bought is half sold.”
Howard Marks, Paul Johnson • The Most Important Thing Illuminated
A man once lauded as an orator in parliament for his speeches championing the indigent found himself bereft of words.
Stacy Reid • My Darling Duke (The Sinful Wallflowers Book 1)
We can never know definitively the extent to which Russell and the other southern barons supported these changes because they wanted Lyndon Johnson to be President, believing that if he became President, he would help prevent radical change in the nation’s racial laws; or because they wanted Johnson to have power in the Senate; or because they thou
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Superior sales and distribution by itself can create a monopoly, even with no product differentiation. The converse is not true.