Arthur Rock

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out. ”

And what I'm interested in is investing in people. ”

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards. ”

IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968. ”

I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock. ”

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities. ”

Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York. ”

And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while. ”

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation. ”