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Danny Lewin

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  1. “At this point, it's possible Lewin suspected, perhaps before anyone else on the flight, that something terrible was about to happen. Having trained in the IDF's most elite counterterrorism unit, he had learned to identify signs of attacks well before they were carried out. He also knew conversational Arabic enough to have picked up on verbal cues if the five Middle Eastern passengers gave any. At around eight fifteen AM a bloody hijacking began on board. Five terrorists, all of them wielding box cutters and knives, rose from their seats in business class and began to threaten passengers and the crew. Most of what we know about the hijacking comes from reports by two flight attendants in the coach cabin Betty Ong and Madeline Sweeney, who calmly and courageously relayed details of the hijacking as it unfolded to authorities on the ground. At eight nineteen AM”

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  2. “He wanted to check on some paperwork Jessin had been preparing for an upcoming deal. Judson said Lewin sounded full of energy despite the sleepless night and looming layoffs. They spoke for about fifteen minutes until Lewin abruptly ended the call in preparation for takeoff. I've got to go, Lewin told Judson, to telling me I have to hang up my phone. American Airlines Flight 11 took off from Logan on schedule at 7.59 a.m. The plane headed due west and held on course for sixteen minutes until it passed Worcester, Massachusetts. Then, instead of taking a southernly turn, it suddenly swung up to the north. Just before eight fourteen AM the plane failed to climb to its assigned cruising altitude of twenty nine thousand feet.”

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  3. “But Lewin was a standout among them, dressed more like a college kid in his gap blue jeans, t shirt, and gray Nike sneakers. Lewin settled into his seat, and pulled out his blackberry to make a phone call before departure. Co workers say Lewin almost always made calls up until the moment up until the moment one of the flight attendants reprimanded him for failing to shut down his device. Around seven thirty AM with the plane still sitting on the runway, he called Akamis in house attorney, David Judson. Lewin knew Judson was an early riser and often one of the first to arrive at the office.”

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  4. “Okay, here we go. Early on the morning of September eleventh, two thousand one, Lewin kissed Anne goodbye and drove from his home to Boston's local Logan International Airport. He arrived just in time to catch American Airlines Flight eleven, scheduled for departure at eight AM and bound non stop for Los Angeles. It was a trip he had taken so many times, more than thirty in the past year that he knew the flight crew by name, the numbers of the most comfortable seats, and the makes and models of the aircraft. The plane was partially full, eighty one passengers, nine crew members, and two pilots. Like Lewin, many of the passengers seated in business class were traveling for work on their daily scheduled flight. A television producer, actress, photographer, and submarine.”

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  5. “Leighton and Lewin work through the night, and as the hours tick by, they talked not just as business partners, but also as friends. It was not until two or three AM. So it says Lewin and Leighton wrapped up their work. Lewin had a flight to catch to California in just a few hours, so he said goodbye to Layton. Late that night Lewin chose to return to the home he shared with Anne and the boys. In the weeks prior to this he and Anne had begun to reconcile and just recently decided to give their marriage another chance. The two of them hoped, Anne said, to remain together for the rest of their lives.”

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  6. “At the end of the meeting, which lasted well over eight hours, Austin and her co workers, somewhat daunted by the task at hand, tried to convince Lewin to change his plan to travel to Los Angeles the next day and stay in Cambridge to shepherd the layoffs and restructuring. This is a really crazy part. Lewin opened his blackberry and for a moment seemed to consider it, but then said he couldn't, adding You guys will be fine. Such as life as. such as the craziness of life that that one decision and he could still very well be alive.”

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  7. “With more layoffs ahead, it was a terrible week for Akamai, but Lewin approached the tumult with his usual cheer and buoyancy. He was scared. The stock had plummeted and a few of Akamai's customers were on the verge of collapse. On september tenth, okay, so this is his last full day alive. On september tenth, Lewin called a meeting at Akamai for more than a dozen employees. In a conference room, Lewin offered up a new vision for the company. One was that one that was clear and well planned. Danny was very focused, observed Julia Austin, who was still in charge of the engineering team. He told us that we were going to shift direction and talked about where we were going next as a company.”

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  8. “I don't know. It's just tough, man. It sucks. Where was I going with that? So, okay, so not only is his company went from $327 multi-billion dollar market cap, I think now they're down to like a $200 million market cap, something like that, and they're doing layoffs. They're just not doing well. Danny and his wife get divorced, or excuse me, separated, they never divorced, but Danny's living in a house, he buys his own house. So he's dealing with the breakup of his family and his business is on the verge of collapse. And we're gonna see. How he spends His last day.”

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  9. “Almost like tear inducing. Okay, so this part is just a graduate student. And I just included this part because I thought it was an amazing sentence given exactly where he found himself in his life at this time. Although they spent the better part of two years building Akamai, Leighton and Lewin still harbored, they've already IPO'd, by the way. Hold on. Is that true Although they spent the better part of two years building Akamai, Leighton Lewin still harbored similar long-term life plans of a quiet, cerebral career in academia. Suddenly though, they were at the helm of a breakout company moving at a break.”

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  10. “Thanks for coming to Seattle, but I've only got 20 minutes. My boss told me I had to take this meeting, so sit down and tell me what you have to say. Two hours later, Danny would still be at the whiteboard in full throttle with a room full of technology staff enrapt attention. Danny was so focused on getting everyone in the room to experience this euphoric passion, one that made them believe I don't know exactly what this is, but I need to have this and I need to have it now. Once he got the customer to this frothy pitch, once he got the customer to this frothy pitch level of excitement, he'd basically leave the room and I'd close the deal. This is Gallagher. That was a quote from Gallagher, the VP of sales. Gallagher continues. The fact was these customers had a need and they weren't aware that it was possible to solve it our way because nothing else like Akamai existed. The persona of Danny rapidly created a market perception that we were intensely”

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  11. “If you were like, what do you think are skills are essential? Like, what skills would you teach your kids if you could be in charge of schooling? And he said, sales and coding. And there's other things you could add on to that and other things maybe you could take away. But I think sales, everybody should learn. I do think it has universal value in almost anything that you could possibly do. And this note is about Danny was the best salesperson. So we've already seen kind of hints in this when he was able just in one meeting to convince this guy to hand over $500,000. So that's obviously sale because he's fundraising. But let's go into this part of the book. It quickly became apparent that when it came to sales, Lewin was the company's most powerful weapon capable of turning skeptics into true believers. A lot of meetings would begin with some decision makers saying,”

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  12. “Would take over the bulk of the work this will allow me to return to my family life and to see my wonderful kids and wife, he wrote. That's something far more valuable than millions. Lewin didn't need millions, but he desperately needed some money in the bank. The financial woes he and Anne faced were only worsening. They were close to broke. Lewin had his long term hopes pinned on Akamai, but the company still only still existed only on paper.”

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  13. “In the spring of 2011, a friend asked if I was interested in a job co-producing an independent film tribute for the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. The subject, he explained, was a passenger on the first plane to crash into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. From there, the story took on a life of its own. It is the story of Danny Lewin, who was almost certainly the first victim of the nine hundred eleven attacks. It's the story of an extraordinary gifted young man who believed anything was possible and let nothing stand in his way. Of an all American kid who moved to Israel against his will ended up falling hopelessly in love with the country and served as an officer in the most elite unit of the Israeli army. Young soldier who trained to hunt and kill terrorists and who, in a tragic twist of irony, later died at their hands of a loud, irreverent computer science student who formed a beautiful French”

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