{"id":6083,"date":"2015-10-15T13:39:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T17:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=6083"},"modified":"2015-10-15T13:48:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T17:48:05","slug":"who-was-ewing-kauffman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/who-was-ewing-kauffman\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Was Ewing Kauffman?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;d like to thank the Kaufman Center for VC Education.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They&#8217;re great.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ewing Kauffman was a person who self funded a business. When he was young he almost died. When he was dying he read a lot.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m guessing after his near death experience.., he didn&#8217;t give two turds what people thought of him. So he worked hard and self funded a business.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"border:1px solid black;padding:8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;padding-right:8px;\"><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/654707947847548928?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">10\/15\/15, 10:18 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>I see a stadium built by a dude who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23SelfFundSellFun&amp;src=hash\">#SelfFundSellFun<\/a>&#8216;d it that then mentored VCs in Palo Alto. What do u see?!? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23K&amp;src=hash\">#K<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2xPf3gLJRL\"><span>pic.twitter.com\/2xPf3gLJRL<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/div>\n<div>Text me what you see in this picture&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/image129.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" id=\"757E034D-1490-4798-A91C-B0F4353018B5\"><br \/> Skip&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/download?ref_src=MailTweet-iOS\">Downloading<\/a> the Twitter app and just mother scratching text me.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>FTC disclosure: I know #WhoOwnsTheIceHouse. You will know also if you google good. (I know it&#8217;s google well but I break grammaterific rules for alliterational effect:-)<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;sns=em\"><embed width='425' height='344' allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='always' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eudADPfTWiE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1' \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;sns=em\"><embed width='425' height='344' allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='always' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WVKHwYJzVVc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1' \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang I&#8217;d like to thank the Kaufman Center for VC Education.&nbsp; They&#8217;re great.&nbsp; Ewing Kauffman was a person who self funded a business. When he was young he almost died. When he was dying he read a lot.&nbsp; I&#8217;m guessing after his near death experience.., he didn&#8217;t give two turds what people thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}