Nayden remembered the meeting clearly. “Jack walks into the boardroom,” he recalled. “We haven’t even said good morning, and he goes, ‘Are you guys fu-fu-fu-fu-fucking kidding me?’ That’s how the board meeting started. Two hours later, after listening to the discussion and after asking a hundred questions, having everybody around the table ask questions and answer them, Jack goes, ‘Okay, let’s do it.’ He always had a point of view, but he also had twenty questions and he always kept an open mind. And he wanted to engage with the people proposing to invest, proposing to take risk. He wanted to
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