They Saw Opportunity Where Others Only Saw Risk Contact: Scott Walton, 415.350.5195,
[email protected] An audience favorite at last year’s SXSW (South by Southwest), Something Ventured is coming to public television in 2013. Something Ventured tells the story of the creation of an industry that went on to become the single greatest engine of innovation and economic growth in the 20th century. It is told by the visionary risk-takers who dared to make it happen and the entrepreneurs whose visionary ideas fueled a technical revolution. These are the stories of Intel, Cisco , Genentech , Tandem, Atari , Powerpoint and Apple ! SOCIAL MEDIA KIT Facebook, Twitter, YouTube - We have categorized them so you can build a series! Quotable Quotes: “Venture capitalists do write the check, but, that isn't all we do. Writing a check is easy… yeah, it doesn’t take much ink.” Arthur Rock “You know it wasn’t my goal to start an industry, my goal was to, um, make sure the science got translated into an endeavor that would be useful to people.” - Herbert Boyer “We went public the same day that Playboy Enterprises went public. At the same price. And a few years later, one of the analysts, says: ‘The market has spoken, it’ s memory over mammaries 10 to 1.” - Gordon Moore “The quarter that I arrived, we hired a shrink. He eliminated fighting in the open hallways. Physical fighting I mean. I actually had the ah, Vice President of Engineering deck the Sales Vice President in my office!” - John Morgridge “At Cisco, you know, being the only woman and a technical woman, I think I was just very very frightening.