Three questions stood between thousands of pitches and one $70,000 check that changed everything
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Hundreds of business plans, which their founders worked day and night on, mostly died on a single desk in Boston.
It was Georges Doriot’s desk, a Harvard Business School professor with an eye for immaculate suits and unproven companies.
Decades before anyone coined the phrase “venture capital,” Doriot was already putting it in motion, one rejection at a time.
