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Re:Diamonds Born in Santa Clara by riffraff on Saturday November 14, 2015 @08:20AM (#10565558)
> But investors may also like that Roscheisen is a seasoned CEO, having led the solar power tech company Nanosolar for roughly eight years previously. (It was wound down in 2013, after raising roughly $450 million in capital over its 11-year life.)

Why would an investor like this? "This guy must be good, he burned through 450 millions in 11 years!"

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Re:Diamonds Born in Santa Clara by hdevarajan on Saturday November 14, 2015 @02:29PM (#10566874)
Look up egroups or the Wikipedia entry on him (disclosure: am an old friend of Martin's)
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Re:Diamonds Born in Santa Clara by riffraff on Saturday November 14, 2015 @04:02PM (#10567235)
sorry if I was unclear, I meant that the sentence seemed a non-sequitur, I wasn't trying to argue the competence of the person.
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