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## [The $100 Million Question: Why Silicon Valley's First VC Says His Biggest Mistakes Were "Picking the Wrong People"](https://trumind.ai/blog/the-100-million-question-why-silicon-valleys-first-vc-says-his-biggest-mistakes-were-picking-the-wrong-people)

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Arthur Rock backed Intel, Apple, and Fairchild Semiconductor—yet he admits his costliest errors came...

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