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Re: VCs pour on to campus, in greater numbers than 1999

probir roy — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:47:10 -0000

WE have been able to attract student attention of the GSB all the way over here in India on account of Ram Shriram's introduction.

We are keenly looking fwd to engaging with him.

Probir Roy
Co Founder PayMate
Co Founder Coruscant Tec

Re: VCs pour on to campus, in greater numbers than 1999

Annonymous — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:44:01 -0000

This just shows how desparate VCs have become when it comes to Internet investing. There is WAY too much money chasing too few (good) deals, but most VCs I talk to have no idea how to identify good from bad deals. They're either too old, or come from technology (read: enterprise software), or don't get it (former investment bankers, consultants).

In a few years most of these guys will be badly burned and things will return to normal.

Re: VCs pour on to campus, in greater numbers than 1999

Ben Marklein — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:14:47 -0000

Re: "Ram Shriram bumped into a professor at Stanford while riding an elevator, and that led to an intro to the Google guys"

I'm not sure about this story. Ram was CEO of Junglee at the time he invested in Google. Junglee was founded by Stanford CS Ph.D. candidates including Venky Harinarayan, who shared an office with Sergey. I believe this was Ram's link with Google, not a chance meeting with a professor