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Speaking of tech and horse farms, one of the early founders of Cisco cashed out pretty early (as I recall for a couple of hundred million, a small amount compar

Speaking of tech and horse farms, one of the early founders of Cisco cashed out pretty early (as I recall for a couple of hundred million, a small amount compared to what the company stock valuation inflated to during the peak of the dotcom 1.0 boom years) and retired to breed horses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Lerner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Lerner

rexreed 4y ago
If you haven't seen that one scene in HBO's Silicon Valley, it was a fairly casual reference to that. Do I dare link it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GCtEXbOezM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GCtEXbOezM
- walrus01 4y ago
  I really think Jack in the show is much more of a parody of Microsoft execs and Steve Ballmer, with the conjoined triangles of success and all.
  - rexreed 4y ago
    It's a fabulous farcical melange of quite a few tech execs. It's all about the box.