doriot

Supposedly, DEC started to lose its way when Olsen no longer had Doriot around to mentor him.

Fascism is itself a branch of socialism (Mussolini was one, in France the fascist leader Jacques Doriot was one as well, for instance).

We're far from the days of Georges Doriot and DEC...

ARD funded DEC, and "Some of the very early VC’s got their venture capital education at Harvard as Doriot’s students", including Arthur Rock.

A quick tip used by the first VC (George Doriot) was to ask people what would they do with $1b for example.

The birth of VC as an asset class is generally considered to be in the mid-1940s and created by Harvard Professor George Doriot.

Doriot slots into my "crowdfunding" comment above.

Super interesting that Arthur Rock was a student of George Doriot.

Anyone skeptical of this should download Fantasy Startup at Doriot.com which is working to qualify non-millionaires as SEC Accredited....you'll quickly discover that everyone can (and should) be investing in startups.

While I agree the VC industry wouldn't have been started if it wasn't for Doriot, I think private money being used to fund startups is really the inflection point in the industry.

So many computer companies had gone bust by then that, per their own observations and the advice of the legendary Georges Doriot, "the father of venture capitalism", they changed their business plan to doing that first, and if they got enough business, to then do a computer with them.

ARD funded DEC, and "Some of the very early VC’s got their venture capital education at Harvard as Doriot’s students", including Arthur Rock.

Doriot slots into my "crowdfunding" comment above.

So many computer companies had gone bust by then that, per their own observations and the advice of the legendary Georges Doriot, "the father of venture capitalism", they changed their business plan to doing that first, and if they got enough business, to then do a computer with them.

A quick tip used by the first VC (George Doriot) was to ask people what would they do with $1b for example.

The birth of VC as an asset class is generally considered to be in the mid-1940s and created by Harvard Professor George Doriot.

Super interesting that Arthur Rock was a student of George Doriot.