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#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 Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics

John Dord: In 94, I'm sitting around the office and Jim Clark comes in with this really tall, but really young guy who turned out to be Mark Andreessen. And they were coming into pitch Perkins on the thing that became Netscape. He says he looked at his partner and go, we're doomed. Three years later, the internet is completely off way, and Martha Stewart comes in the office. John Dord decides he's going to make an investment and turn it into an internet stock.

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