I liked Barksdale immediately and found him to be the kind of leader I wished there were more of. Highly ethical, but with a love of young techies, he exuded decency at every turn. And one thing stood out: Barksdale never lied to me, as Andreessen did so many times that I stopped counting. (In reply to one text from him that was flatly untrue, I simply wrote: “Pants on fire.”)
