Godard Abel
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And two months later, I did the demo to Mark Benioff, and he got so excited.
He's like, I want to acquire you.
It was about 390 million.
It was all stock.
It was an all-stock deal.
And we kind of got lucky.
At the time, you never know.
That's what it was then.
Obviously, if you held it, and obviously to each investor's choice, but if you held it.
And I had a financial advisor and unfortunately they encouraged me to diversify.
So I did.
A lot.
I mean, I kept a little bit, but obviously in hindsight, but it doubled, right?
Obviously, but you have such a concentrated financial position.
Every financial advisor can tell you to diversify.
But sometimes that's very wrong.
Sometimes it's very right.
So I did.
And I didn't do it all at once.
But still, in hindsight, it was a mistake because it just kept going up.