The Importance of Friendships, Relationships, and Great Teams in Silicon Valley

Amitai Etzioni: I met one of my friends who was, who I knew from my undergraduate days in computer science at IIT. We said, okay, let's give it a shot. Let's go find and see if there would be other VCs that would have the fortitude to bet on a semiconductor startup. The basic idea we saw was that as the infrastructure was transitioning from enterprises and telcos to the cloud, there was an opportunity for Enovium.