Word: guess
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...think it's partially genetic. We [Domar and her co-author, Alice Lesch Kelly] talked about 200 women. Most women who have issues in this realm either had a parent who was a perfectionist or had a parent who was a slob. If it is genetic, then I guess they follow in their parent's footsteps or they rebel and go the opposite...
...started work on it, I guess, in July of 1999. We took a little office in Wimbledon, and Bert carried on developing the software, the product, the prototype, and I started putting a business plan together...
...mechanism for making it happen was my original idea. I guess I would say it was a reasonably straight-forward idea, the idea of person to person betting - there's a lot of person to person stuff going on - and I guess it was fairly easy for anyone to identify that if you could create a person to person business on the web, and you could crack that particular space, you had a big hit on your hands. But I think it was visualizing how it would work, rather than that the space existed, that was the innovative part...
...long time. And then, he sort of called me out of the blue, about nine months later, to say that he was in a position to do something and "was I interested?," and he could still remember the conversation very well so it had obviously made an impression, I guess...
...look back on it as one of the most exciting periods of my life, I guess, the first six months of Betfair, which were fairly high-octane stuff. We would have some disagreements, we'd shout and scream and that sort of thing - I certainly did. But it was incredibly exciting, watching the numbers go up, and watching the business actually happen...