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Extraordinary Change George Lee Illuminates Volatility and Disruption
you to graduates, parents and friends of the school who offer substantial support to Nobles. A Middlebury College grad who moved to California in 1995 after graduating from the Wharton School of Business, Lee engineered Facebook’s $50 million deal and handled Google’s second public offering. Silicon Valley, he said, had a transformative effect on his life and career. “When you add it all up, you get this strange world of Silicon Valley. It’s a world where huge opportunities, crazy visions and endless optimism meet massive risk, constant threat and rampant insecurity.” Lee said that the most disruptive force in technology today is mobile technology. “A picture or two is worth a thousand words,” he said. “This is a picture of the election of Pope Benedict in 2005. This is a picture of the election of Pope Francis in March of this year [Lee projected a photo of crowds recording the election on iPads and other devices, illuminating the streets of Rome].” Lee also talked about Google Glass, Google’s wearable mobile-computing device, the potential of 3-D printers and the impact of the billions of smartphones around the world. Just to show how far we’ve come in such a short time, Lee said that the most recent Sony PlayStation has more
Hyper-development in tech is an opportunity or a threat, a utopia or a dystopia, depending on one’s perspective and the ability to accept its proliferation and become a meaningful part of the change. The disruption will be pretty spectacular, according to George Lee ’84, partner and
co-head of global technology, media and telecom banking at Goldman Sachs. On April 11, Lee told 210 Nobles supporters at the Boston Harbor Hotel that volatility and disruption are the new normal. The annual dinner, hosted by Head of School Bob Henderson ’76, is a thank
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