BLOOMBERG Leaders With Lacqua February 13, 2016
Emily when you made an early investment in hotmail. You bet on email before email was anything. What did you see . Steve it is usually a combination of two things. An entrepreneur that gets me excited, jumping out of my seat. In this case, it was Sabeer Bhatia and his partner, jack smith. And an idea unlike anything i have seen before, which is, wow, email wherever you go not tied to a corporate system or an email server. It was like a lightbulb went off. We invested in what became the first example of viral marketing on the internet. Emily of course, microsoft went on to buy hotmail. Dfj made...