I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business School, and my very first assignment as a teaching assistant for an investments professor was to - he told me go down to this computer company in Cupertino called Apple.
Frank Quattrone
LinkedIn is the Netscape of its era.
I don't follow any particular periodical anymore. I use Twitter as my customized news feed.
We have a network of contacts, where there are very few boards where we can't reach out to the CEO or key board members.
Twitter has a several-hour advantage in getting information.
I thought I was kind of a hotshot because I had had two years of work experience at Morgan Stanley, and I was about to get my Stanford M.B.A.
We don't have sales trading, brokerage, capital lending - any of those kinds of things that got some of the Wall Street firms a little bit in trouble.
When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.
Respect public investors and treat them as partners and important constituents.
Don't go public before you can be public.
