At Silicon Valley Startups, Sales Must Come First

While I was a student at Stanford, I got the chance to attend a seminar featuring Kathryn Gould, prominent entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Speaking about her time in the 1980s at the then-startup, Oracle, Gould said something that stuck out to me. At the time, she said, “All that mattered to Larry [Ellison - co-founder and former CEO [...]