Jim Breyer, a partner at Accel Partners, joined the board of directors of Dell today. That’s interesting in itself, but the man also sits on the board of Facebook, Walmart and Marvel, as well as a number of younger startups.
On a daily basis Breyer sees a flow of non public information (retail sales at Walmart, Facebook’s monetization plans, Marvel’s thoughts on the promise and peril of digital distribution, Dell’s plans to stay relevant) that would be the envy of anyone.
I’ve long had a warm place in my heart for Breyer, who managed to defuse the absurd legal situation that arose last year when we put on an Iron Man screening. Marvel tried to shut it down for a variety of reasons. Breyer, realizing the ridiculousness of the situation, called back the attack dogs and the screening went forward. I’ve had a man crush on him ever since.
I appreciate that the only thing below the fold is “I’ve had a man crush on him ever since.”
i brought it up into the summary too. If I’m going to make a statement like that, I need to stand by it.
That’s bromantic of you, Michael.
surfing at 1024×768?
The man must do an amazing job to be wanted by so many companies. Great point about the amount of information he gets access to. Sounds like he’d be a great interview to snag, Mike.
Micheal goes on man dates.
you guys see I Love You Man? Breyer definitely looks like Paul Rudd. Just sayin. http://www.imdb...name/nm0748620/
Does that mean you look like Jason Segel?
yeah i was hoping no one would say that.
loved that movie
Slappin’ the base?
He does look like a version of Paul Rudd from a 1980’s sitcom. Are you sure this guy isn’t from “Facts of Life” or something?
what is interesting is how much Accel kinda missed the dot-com limelight (letting newer firms like Benchmark get the spot light) – But really tookback the leadership role in web 2.0 (eeky term but you know what I mean)
Heh!
“I’ve had a man crush on him ever since.”
I almost choked with laughter over that. Bromance anyone?
Maybe he’ll straighten Dell out with their Adamo fiasco, more commonly know as their laughable underpowered overpriced piece of Dell crap.
How old is Jim?
A serious flow of non-public information indeed!
I was thinking Mary Lou Retton might be his long lost sister… It’s the smile. But, is the man crush reciprocal Mike? NM… That may be forward looking statement kinda stuff.
*tips hat*
he might be great but one might want to run “fast” from Theresia Ranzetta. If you have a choice take the money from anyone but imho:)
why do i get the impression that this guy is the 2ed coming of steve jurvetson at dfj…a one hit wonder with hotmail and this guy with fakebook…also, dell is a has been.
http://www.dfj....Jurvetson.shtml
http://www.acce...php?person_id=4
yes Jurveston is a big-time hack (as is DFJ in general) but Breyer has actually had more than a few decent hits and is a good investor.
Eeew. I feel like talking about baseball scores or something now.
ah very cool the idea of adding the twitter name in the comments Michael. Too bad I missed you today. I have a man’s crush on you (but you have an old model SegWay)
breyer is a crook. Dell has lost its senses.
i agree that’s why i am on the board of f/book too