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billehunt

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About billehunt

Bill Hunt is a software CTO who has founded and/or been a senior exec at multiple venture-backed companies, each an innovator and the leader in their space. Five of his companies were acquired for $700m by Oracle, Avaya, Alcatel and others. He has also acquired multiple companies.

Bill enjoys mentoring young entrepreneurs and is an occasional speaker on technology and entrepreneurship. He is a board member or advisor of several high-quality companies and has 12 patents to his credit.

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    His famous metal lock-pick business card - https://imgur.com/a/caareoI

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    Shawn and I worked together at Novell back when this was going down. It was fascinating at the time and more so in hindsight. FWIW, Shawn's a really good guy.

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    Command Center is really cool. I worked with Jimmy at Thiel Fellowship - wicked smart guy.

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    Comment #36525253

    Wow. So cool.

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    > write a long winded story for a game ending about the universe loving you that will never be seen by most players and is worth $20,000 As the game comes to an end, you reflect on…

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    Big fan of Fossa and the team. They're solving an important problem.

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    No suggestions, but I'm interested to hear what you learn in this. I've wanted to do similar, but email broke for me because I can't arbitrarily sort the list. I could tag messages…

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    Great job, Guys!

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    Startup Fund-Raising Talk

    Lightning talk I did recently on angel/vc funding at #svnewtech meetup.