Jeff Horing
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And we picked software.
In hindsight, it was probably the best bet I've ever made.
It wasn't because I saw the vision to where it is today by any stretch.
So that was the start of it all.
In like the early 90s, I was still at Warburg.
I went to a conference and Kevin Landry, who was at the time the founder and
managing partner at TA Associates, was presenting to a large crowd and he was walking through his playbook.
And I was like, the classic Vince Lombardi story.
Here it is.
I don't really care.
Do it the way you will.
Good luck was his comment.
And I'm 26 years old.
I'm like, all right, that's pretty cool.
He's ripping out Help Wanted ads from the New York Times magazine that you're reading.
And he's calling these companies up.
And it turned out back then,
It was a really opaque market.
Very few companies were out there raising capital in any professional way.
Entrepreneurs were really receptive to just being called up and saying, hey, I think you've got something cool.