Founders: #24 No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet

What I learnd by reading No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet by Molly Knight Raskin. 

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When Danny was excited about something, you couldn't help but get excited too (3:00)

Steve Jobs had one speed: GO! (6:00)

Danny joins Israel's special forces (10:00)

"Life is too short to be bored. Only boring people are bored." (19:00)

The idea for Akamai (22:00)

"If he didn't know something, he'd go learn it." (28:00)

Building a company the right way (31:00)

Finding a business model (35:00)

Passion is worth $500,000 (38:30)

The first product (42:00)

"My goal was to express it in layman's terms so that your grandmother could understand it." (44:00)

Finding the right price/model (45:00)

The best salesperson (48:10)

"Hi, this is Steve Jobs, and I want to buy your company." (54:00)

"I have this company of one hundred ten people, headed by one of the biggest businessmen around with lots of money in the bank, and I'm just a graduate student." (57:00)

"In less than one year, a tiny startup out of MIT had grown to a company with a market valuation than that of General Motors" (58:30)

The last day of Danny's life (1:00:00)

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