Devin Blogs
Investing can be dry. But in the fall of 2005, I was lucky to be at a dinner at Bix in San Francisco, with friends from the Department of Medicine at Stanford. They were just about to become doctors. But they weren’t talking about whether to practice, research, or get a PhD; they were all talking about the same thing: the company they were going to start. Not just them either; their professors, their lawyers, everyone they knew was leaving their jobs to help start this new company. Why was I there: they needed money, and they needed it quickly - they didn’t want to “walk up and down Sand Hill Road with a hat out”, which is West Coast parlance for raising venture capital. Instead, they felt that time was of the essence, they had a crack team, and a product they had already developed at Stanford with $30,000,000 of research funding. They were ready to go, and if I could just see my way to giving them $5,000,000 - they could get started.
They were preaching to the choir. They were setting out to accomplish what I had always believed in, only I didn’t think it would happen in my lifetime. Unfortunately, this company is still shrouded in mystery as it is in “stealth mode”. I can tell you the name, AVIIR, and the website www.aviir.com, but maybe the best thing to do is show you the “commercial” Courtney made for the company, to explain to our friends what AVIIR does. If a picture’s worth a thousand words, what’s a 30-second, 900 frame commercial worth?
Press play...(make sure you have quicktime installed first - AND TURN ON SOUND - MUST HEAR IT TOO!)
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Thursday, March 22, 2007
My favorite company
