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March 30, 2004
My Rob Ryan experience
Rob Ryan was the founder of Ascend Communications, a company he eventually sold for $24b to Lucent. I think he owned about 8% of the company at the time. He's at the school this week and next teaching a short class on the 'sunflower model', his technique for adding a new product every year at growing companies. I'm in the class.
This afternoon I was walking to his class and found him wondering around downstairs after guest lecturing for the undergraduate entrepreneurship class. I asked "are you looking for your next class?" He sort of nodded, so I started talking to him and led him to the classroom. He seems like a normal guy, like the rest of us except for well... he has a lot more money.
As they say, the best time to raise money is when you're not looking for it.
Posted by sam at March 30, 2004 09:32 PM