Paul Weinstein, Business Development Expert • SJ: "Paul Weinstein is the only guy here who knows what the fuck he is talking about."
I was an outsider pitching a product (there were 3 of us) and he just savaged his own team in front of me. At one point in the meeting he asked me what my name was and then when I told him, he said "Paul Weinstein is the only guy here who knows what the fuck he is talking about" and then left. He had a very specific detail in mind he wanted clarified and the rest he couldn't have cared less about. Didn't see him for years after that and then a few months before he died, I ran into him having lunch at Evvia in Palo Alto and he stopped and said hello and asked what I was up to... In Palo Alto that's kind of like Bono or Bill Clinton stopping by your table to say hello!