It’s the rare angel investor who scores one historic blockbuster exit in a lifetime. Ron Conway has done it, and may have a couple more in him.
Conway, one of the most well known angel investors in Silicon Valley, is a former entrepreneur who sold his last company in 1994 and since then has focused strictly on backing Internet start-ups, most recently heading super angel firm SV Angel. On Saturday, he spoke to new entrepreneurs at Y Combinator’s Startup School at Stanford University – and the talk turned to his investments in Google Inc. and Facebook Inc.
Conway first met Larry Page and Sergey Brin at a holiday party in Atherton, Calif. when their company was still called Backrub. The two Stanford students explained their page-rank idea to Conway, who was interested because he was involved with another search engine, AskJeeves.
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Author: Tomio Geron
