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Mark Leslie: Silicon Valley Go-to-Market Legend (Part 1)

Pattern Breakers

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How Did You Decide to Strike Out on Your Own?

i was at s p s for four years. I went there because it, this is the place where it's small enough and young enough that i can learn what it takes to actually to create a company in the computer industry. In 19 80, we ended up raising a, over four years, we ended in 35 million dollars. We were building a on-line transaction processing system with multiple processes of remove and add on the fly while you're doing any customer needed. It was probably 95 per cent of what our customers needed but the last five per cent wasn't so sexy. So thenyou ou ere, you were atth scientific data systems for a while. Went when did

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