That idea he had-which literally went right out of his head and I don’t think he ever thought about it again-I couldn’t let it go. It was the year after the Apple Two and still three years before the IBM PC. That idea just grabbed me, and weirdly it was seventeen years before the Palm Pilot. My brother had given me a Speak & Spell in 1978, and he said to me that because they can make this thing talk with a couple AA batteries and have a screen and all, this means you’re going to be able to hold all your personal information in your hands in just a few years. It wasn’t a job you went into to get rich it was a job you did because you were interested in it. I started in mutual funds, which was a place where in the eighties you could be involved with tech in a very academic way. I’m there when enterprise products for businesses really takes off and when the Internet begins. I’m the same age as people like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, so getting to know people like that was a completely organic thing because they weren’t yet as famous as they eventually would be-and god knows they weren’t as rich. The personal computer era was just beginning, so I was there for the beginning of the PC business. Roger McNamee: The way to think about is, I started investing in the technology industry in 1982, which is the very tail end of the Apollo era of Silicon Valley when the space shuttle and the government were the primary focus. In today’s monologue, Brad talks about Disorder Salon, a new reading series starting up in New Orleans. He has served as a technical advisor for seasons two through five of HBO’s “Silicon Valley” series and was also responsible for raising the money that created the Wikimedia Foundation. Roger plays bass and guitar in the bands Moonalice and Doobie Decibel System and is the author of The New Normal and The Moonalice Legend: Posters and Words, Volumes 1-9. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. His most recent fund, Elevation, included U2’s Bono as a co-founder. He co-founded successful funds in venture, crossover and private equity. McNamee has been a Silicon Valley investor for 35 years. His new book Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, is a New York Times bestseller, available from Penguin Press. Over two decades have since passed, and although the dirt parking lot has been paved over and a car dealership now stands on the spot where this murder occurred, Roger Kelly's family and the Lyon County Sheriff's Office have not forgotten about this tragic loss of life and the fact that Roger Kelly's homicide still remains unsolved.Roger McNamee is the guest on this week’s Otherppl. That solitary shot tragically ended the life of truck driver Roger Kelly on that cold, winter night. It was shortly after 9PM on that second Sunday in the new year when a single gunshot rang out from the dirt parking lot on the west side of the Best Western hotel. On January 09, 2000, Christina Aguilera had the number one song in America with What a Girl Wants, Dan Marino won his last NFL game, and the TV show Malcolm in the Middle debuted on Fox. The residents of Fernley, Nevada-just like in every town across America-were settling in to the new year and the new millennium. The holidays had just passed and the fear of Y2K was now something to laugh about.
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