#18: Roger McNamee on Being in the Right Place at the Right Time (and Making the Most of It)
Superinvestors and the Art of Worldly Wisdom
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The Random Axes
I basically earned my spending money in college and grad school by playing music. So I knew how it's a song beginning to end. All of a sudden I discovered I could infiltrate the upper reaches of the personal computer industry on the basis of knowing 200 songs. And so I wind up being part of this group, which immediately decides now that it could do songs, we had to have a name. We were called the random axes. Within a year we were invited to play at every conference and trade show. There's no other investment people around. In fact, when Borland went public a couple of years later and the CEO comes to my office, he looks at me, does this double
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