The Reimer brothers decided to create a firm because there were so few venture investors in Europe. When I was over there for sun, my job was to go find every startup in Europe and ensure that they were developing on sun. But as I went around meeting all these companies, they had brilliant engineers and great products, but no venture funding. So when I came back to the US in 99, I almost decided to stay. It was such a shock of reentry because every taxi driver was asking for stock tips. Everyone was trading stock tips. All anyone was talking about in restaurants were stocks in private companies.

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