Diligence
It was March 2002, and Art Marks was sitting around a campfire in the Blue Ridge Mountains
with two friends from the venture capital world, Gene Riechers and Hooks Johnston. They'd had a
few drinks. They'd told some jokes. But, like retired athletes who can't help rehashing old games, the
campfire conversation kept circling back to the same place, back to the same topic, and each time they
returned to it, their enthusiasm grew. The topic was: due diligence.
While the campfire appeal of a smore…
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