As I asserted in a prior article here:
I had to threaten to resign from that project to hire Tom as I was told I couldn’t hire him but could hire all the H-1bs from India I wanted. That was the largest single risk-capital investment of the DotCon era ($500M in total for “Internet Chapter 2”) and one I had agreed to join rather than pursue an early role with Paypal because I felt there was a fundamental problem with computer science that had held it back from properly addressing networks – and this would have been likely my last chance to complete my professional mission of decentralizing the network.
From Ray Solomonoff’s history of the Dartmouth Summer AI Workshop:
