Esther Dyson

So I met the CEO of American Airlines and American Motors and visited a coal mine in Wyoming, and it was great.

So I met the CEO of American Airlines and American Motors and visited a coal mine in Wyoming, and it was great.

So I met the CEO of American Airlines and American Motors and visited a coal mine in Wyoming, and it was great.

Ironically, it's Russia again. So I had the newsletter and I had an annual conference called PC Forum, which started out as Personal Computer Forum and ended as Platforms for Communication Forum, but kept the name. So went to Russia in 1989, started a second conference called REL East, which was based in... Each year it would go be somewhere in Eastern Europe, Budapest, Hungary.

Ironically, it's Russia again. So I had the newsletter and I had an annual conference called PC Forum, which started out as Personal Computer Forum and ended as Platforms for Communication Forum, but kept the name. So went to Russia in 1989, started a second conference called REL East, which was based in... Each year it would go be somewhere in Eastern Europe, Budapest, Hungary.

Ironically, it's Russia again. So I had the newsletter and I had an annual conference called PC Forum, which started out as Personal Computer Forum and ended as Platforms for Communication Forum, but kept the name. So went to Russia in 1989, started a second conference called REL East, which was based in... Each year it would go be somewhere in Eastern Europe, Budapest, Hungary.

We never did it in Moscow. That was just too complicated. And I also started a second newsletter, REL East, as opposed to the first newsletter was Release 1.0. And that was free. The conference was free to people from Eastern Europe who obviously had to be invited.

We never did it in Moscow. That was just too complicated. And I also started a second newsletter, REL East, as opposed to the first newsletter was Release 1.0. And that was free. The conference was free to people from Eastern Europe who obviously had to be invited.

We never did it in Moscow. That was just too complicated. And I also started a second newsletter, REL East, as opposed to the first newsletter was Release 1.0. And that was free. The conference was free to people from Eastern Europe who obviously had to be invited.

And then if you were a Westerner, we charged, I think, $5,000, which is quite a lot, the idea being that you made it possible for your East European customers to show up. And Rel East was really a labor of love. I talked to all these interesting people, but there was no business model to it at all. A labor of love and, again, desire for education.

And then if you were a Westerner, we charged, I think, $5,000, which is quite a lot, the idea being that you made it possible for your East European customers to show up. And Rel East was really a labor of love. I talked to all these interesting people, but there was no business model to it at all. A labor of love and, again, desire for education.

And then if you were a Westerner, we charged, I think, $5,000, which is quite a lot, the idea being that you made it possible for your East European customers to show up. And Rel East was really a labor of love. I talked to all these interesting people, but there was no business model to it at all. A labor of love and, again, desire for education.

And then this guy called Lee Valentine, who had a fund... said to me, you keep talking about how people should invest in Eastern Europe. Would you, suppose I give you a million dollars, would you invest it? And I said, no, I can't. I'm a juror. How much money did you say?

And then this guy called Lee Valentine, who had a fund... said to me, you keep talking about how people should invest in Eastern Europe. Would you, suppose I give you a million dollars, would you invest it? And I said, no, I can't. I'm a juror. How much money did you say?

And then this guy called Lee Valentine, who had a fund... said to me, you keep talking about how people should invest in Eastern Europe. Would you, suppose I give you a million dollars, would you invest it? And I said, no, I can't. I'm a juror. How much money did you say?

And then I realized I could get this million dollars, which in Eastern Europe was worth a lot at that point, put in a little bit of my own. And stopped the newsletter and the conference so I'd have no conflict. And the amazing thing is people would still talk to you if you were going to give them money. So I figured, well, that's another great way to get educated about Eastern Europe.

And then I realized I could get this million dollars, which in Eastern Europe was worth a lot at that point, put in a little bit of my own. And stopped the newsletter and the conference so I'd have no conflict. And the amazing thing is people would still talk to you if you were going to give them money. So I figured, well, that's another great way to get educated about Eastern Europe.

And then I realized I could get this million dollars, which in Eastern Europe was worth a lot at that point, put in a little bit of my own. And stopped the newsletter and the conference so I'd have no conflict. And the amazing thing is people would still talk to you if you were going to give them money. So I figured, well, that's another great way to get educated about Eastern Europe.

I'll go around telling people maybe I'd invest and I can still be part of the scene and learn a lot and So I shut down the East European publishing part and started investing in Eastern Europe. Though my first investment was, I don't know whether, I don't know the date, but it was a company called Paragraph. And

I'll go around telling people maybe I'd invest and I can still be part of the scene and learn a lot and So I shut down the East European publishing part and started investing in Eastern Europe. Though my first investment was, I don't know whether, I don't know the date, but it was a company called Paragraph. And