Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. I then worked in a computer store called Software Centre in high school and college (UCSD). The carve-outs were people who got executive MBAs (e.g.

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MAY 17, 2011

I went to undergrad at UCSD, which is not a place known for its Greek institutions and my father grew up in South America and had know idea what a fraternity was. Me: “Of course we’re not going down hill. When Robertson was president. When Stedman ran the pledge class. It was going down hill.&#.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” But the company insists it will stay the course with its lead product, a T cell-based cancer immunotherapy called CTL019 that Novartis could present for regulatory approval if current trials go well. A spokeswoman told Xconomy it was part of an “internal re-alignment.”

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NOVEMBER 22, 2014

I was at an alumni dinner at UCSD (I am on the alumni board) and a group of people were talking about how their kids use UberX to get rides home from parties at night. Of course Airbnb hosts love the company. It is perhaps the best new product of the past 5 years in terms of improving my professional life. I know that. Not really.

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OCTOBER 31, 2015

Of course you should go on your own journey of discovery. But of course I would never do that. I got into a great university (UCSD) and a great masters program (University of Chicago) and still did fine even though I could only sit through 50% of the classes. I even learned how to mark somebody present who was absent.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I’m a huge proponent of a university education (in fact, I’m on the alumni board for my alma mater, UCSD ), but I don’t think it’s for everybody, I don’t think every degree is practical and I don’t think we’re graduating enough software developers and designers. He sold both companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

” Of course life is more complicated. Of course a group of 10 seed funds can’t fix the prices of a market. Let me start with the simplest explanation for anybody who didn’t take economics in university (for my sins I took it for 7 years at UCSD and then University of Chicago). So prices start dropping.

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JANUARY 28, 2011

“Imagine you were a Phd wireless chip designer out of UCSD and then Qualcomm. Nah, of course not. His body language says, “how can somebody who hasn’t done what I do at the level I have be my leader?&#. You want somebody who can do handset deals in the US, Europe & Asia. Is it book smarts? And experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Glenn Beck holds court at the Upfront Summit with legendary VC Vinod Khosla and UCSD Chancellor Pradeep Khosla (not related) If you asked me a year ago when we were hosting the 2016 Upfront Summit the odds of Glenn Beck speaking at the next Summit I would have emphatically said ZERO. He knew this of course before he came.

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