Applications are on all of our minds today.
Back then, the CEO of LSI Logic convinced his biggest investor, Don Valentine, to meet with me.
Don Valentine is the founder of Sequoia.
How did I convince the most sought-after investor in Silicon Valley to invest in a team of first-time founders building a new product for a market that doesn't even exist?
I didn't know how to write a business plan, so I went to a bookstore.
There was this book called 'How to Write a Business Plan.'
It's about 450 pages long.
By the time I'm done reading this thing, I'll be out of business.
Lori and I only had about six months in the bank.
We already had Spencer, Madison, and a dog, so the five of us had to live off whatever money we had.