How much is this to make money for your investors, and how much of it is your passion? Is it a combination of both? You could have set this up as a nonprofit. Jesse Fink: Right. Steve Blank: Hopefully, it won’t be one. Jesse Fink: Yes. Like you, Steve, and like everybody here, I...
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Priceline started in the backwoods of Connecticut. It started in Stanford. Jesse Fink: In Stanford, yes. Steve Blank: So here we are. When did it start? Jesse Fink: We started working on it in '96 and we went out in '98. Steve Blank: So there were lots of interesting technology...
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So when I think about clean tech investing, when I think of solid oxide fuel cells or new thin film semiconductors or solar concentrators or something else, I’m getting a feeling that all those words you just used for the last two minutes doesn't mean that. Jesse Fink: Right. Steve Bl...
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The question is early investors in this sector may not have been as returned focus as they were trying to move things along from a mission perspective per se. Has that changed? You’re absolutely right. If you look at just the volume of capital that is going into the market and you look...
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