Tuesday, April 22, 2008

What matters - money or institution building?

Today's Formation of New Ventures featured a case on Sabeer Bhatia and Hotmail. The case was interesting as was the discussion in class. Steve Jurvetson was there and his observations were quite helpful. But reading the case made me wonder more about Sabeer - Did he miss a great chance to become a truly great entrepreneur? Was he focused on making quick (and well deserved I would add) money and thereby forgo an opportunity to build a wonderful and sustainable company for some time? Or did he have no choice in selling out to Microsoft because of their legendary intimidation tactics?

The discussion in non markets about lobbying was also interesting. I wonder how this can be applied to incease the H1B quota?

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