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...chapter on relationships opens with a story about a woman who talks about how she's always been on the perfectionistic side and it wasn't an issue. She started dating her husband and things were okay and they got married, and she'd sort of nudge him about leaving the bathroom mat on the floor after a shower. But it wasn't until they had kids that it really got bad and she would project all her issues on him. Twice a year she travels for business and before she leaves she types out these long instructions...
...said, "I want to do this, one day I'm going to do this." I'm not sure whether I really believed it or not. Ed seemed interested, but I didn't speak to him again on the subject for quite a 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...
...friends and family round for a million pounds. I think we'd raised it, sort of, middle of February, 2000 -- just in time, because the market obviously then crashed three or four weeks later. Once we'd got that, that was really when it became serious, certainly for me, in the sense you suddenly had friends and family who'd put, between them, a million pounds on the line, and you suddenly felt a real sense of responsibility and a real sense of urgency to make it work for them...
...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...
...sort of weird. I couldn’t get over the dissonance between Wu-Tang and Harvard,” Charles J. Swanson ’08 said...