Chapter Nine

Finishing Touches: External Linkages

Case Studies: Roger McNamee, Elevation Partners • Dean Ormond J. Drake • William Gillette • Don Listwin, Cisco • Nike • Ford Tamer, Inphi • Mark Twain • Bixby Jamison, Twilio

It’s death if you give a speech or a presentation that sounds like a pre-recorded announcement.1

Roger McNamee

▪ The Power of Customization ▪

On my very first day as an undergraduate at New York University, I attended the orientation session for incoming freshmen in a state of suspended animation. I had left behind the camaraderie and the cinder-block walls of a New York City public high school, and now, alone and apart from my close friends, I entered the marble halls of NYU’s Gould Memorial Chapel. I was a solitary speck ...

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