Word: hires
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clear pipelining problems. You cannot hire women faculty unless you get women applicants," Seltzer says. "And trying to get women applicants in computer science for graduate school: Good luck...
...because we hire the smartest people. We improve our products based on feedback, until they're the best. We have retreats each year where we think about where the world is heading." He won't even cop a plea to the charge that Microsoft tends to react to competitors' ideas--the graphical interface of Apple, the Web browser of Netscape--more than it blazes new trails of its own. "Graphical interfaces were done first at Xerox, not Apple. We bet on them early on, which is why Microsoft Office applications became the best...
...with Allen, the relationship was sometimes stormy. "Our first major row came when I insisted it was time to hire 17 more people," Ballmer recalls. "He claimed I was trying to bankrupt him." Gates has a rule that Microsoft, rather than incurring debt, must always have enough money in the bank to run for a year even with no revenues. (It currently has $8 billion in cash and no long-term debt.) "I was living with him at the time, and I got so pissed off I moved out." The elder Gates smoothed things over, and soon the new employees...
...attributes of a great head coach," Gilbert said. "We'd hire him back here in a minute...
...told your reporter, Kott cannot make policy, hire, fire or otherwise commit the company. Kott's role as a consultant has been written about, with the company's cooperation, in a number of major news and business publications since 1993 as well as disclosed to regulators...