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by Cie Murray
Tom Noonan, was 5 months behind on his mortgage, had maxed out 37 Visa credit cards for cash advances to pay for business expenses and had used all the personal cash he had for his internet security company. With a wife and three kids at home, he felt he had a virus in his head.
Just a few years earlier in the 1990’s, at the start of his company the CEO of a large tech firm in California wanted him to serve on their executive team. He sent the CEO an email to tell him no, I’m starting an internet security company. The CEO replied “That’s the stupidest thing I ever heard. If you ever get any money in that company I’ll come to Atlanta and drink champagne from a prostitute’s shoe.”