From: Boris Nikolic < To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: FW: Existential Concerns Re Boris Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 02:15:06 +0000 Importance: Normal From: To: Subject: FW: Existential Concerns Re Boris Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 14:19:23 -0700 FYI.... I didn't say 'Boo' in Larry's direction, but Bill has seen fit to do so. From: Bill Gates [mailto: Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 12:03 PM To: Lowell Wood Cc: Larry Cohen Subject: RE: Existential Concerns Re Boris Thank you for the note. You don't need to apologize as we respect your views immensely. Jam just returning from a family vacation today and will be discussing this with Boris over the next few days. He has done a great job and would be hard to replace. will see you at the TerraPower meeting this coming Friday. From: Lowell Wood [mailto: Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2013 10:31 PM To: Bill Gates; Melinda French Subject: Existential Concerns Re Boris Dear Bill and Melinda: 11 I'm writing to convey some serious concerns that I have regarding Boris. In the course of a recent, wide-ranging discussion with him, he asked as to my bottom-line 'take' on various VC concerns. [I've encountered more-than-a-few of these since graduate school, having 'lost' many of my brightest-&-best protégés to them during the past four decades of their preying-upon my various programs — and then from a somewhat different perspective, post-'retirement! 0] EFTA00676756