Roelof Botha
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I have the emails.
Before smartphones launched.
And it was an SMS app.
I got tired of getting all your, I'm having cappuccino messages on Twitter at the time, I remember.
On your Blackberry, yeah.
And I didn't quite imagine that it could be what it is today.
And so that to me was an example.
I remember an early meeting with Yelp, with Jeremy Stoppelman and Max Lefchin in our offices.
And Yelp hadn't launched a web app.
They were going to be an email newsletter thing.
And Michael in this meeting said, I imagine that one day,
restaurants will put a Yelp sticker in the window, just like a Zagat or a Michelin star.
And he saw that.
He saw that.
He saw that.
I mean, 10 years before that became a reality, he had the imagination to think about that.
That to me is amazing.
Is that what is... Yes, Michael has transitioned out completely.
Doug has stepped back from day-to-day investing.
So he's no longer in partner meetings routinely, but he continues to serve on several boards.