Sasselov had introduced the bald, perpetually sunburned biotechentrepreneur at anotherlecture that morning, and he’d spent thedaysquiringVenteraround campus.
During the real-estate boom years in Manhattan, Michael Shvo was the most visible of the go-go brokers, a brash 30-something squiring customers in his limousine, a cellphone in each ear, hosting celebrity parties and creating ever-more extravagant sales campaigns for new condominiums.