I am old enough to have had the pleasure of Atiq Raza telling me the thing I was helping pitch couldn't be sold to Avaya (or was it Cisco?) in four months for $1 billion and so is not interesting, within the first four minutes of the meeting. Evidently he was seeing enough pitches for things he could sell at that price and in that time.

Now he's in AI investments.

https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releas...

A fascinating investor. I just finished re-reading Microserfs. The buzzwords may have changed between 1993 and 2025, but the human behaviors certainly have not.