Toni & Matt
I respect a lot of people. I admire many people and I love a few dozen people. But there is only a handful I admire, love and respect and Toni Schneider is one of them. I met Toni a decade ago when working on a story for Business 2.0. I met a quiet, thoughtful and amazingly honest person, a man of principles who enjoyed life and living.
Toni loved technology and over the course of reporting that story we became friends. He introduced me to Tony Conrad and that introduction led to True Ventures (where they are both partners) who in turn funded my company and where I would later join as a venture partner. It is a friendship that has endured. More importantly, my admiration and respect for him has grown in the decade that has passed.
Like Toni, over a decade ago I met a young man named