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...work on Napster. It was the first major program Fanning had ever written. "One thing that sets Shawn or any really great programmer apart from mediocre ones is their focus," says Ali Aydar, a friend from Massachusetts who now works as a Unix programmer in Napster's Redwood City, Calif., offices. "Shawn is able to concentrate, and collaborate and appropriate if necessary. He's also able to handle criticism. Most alpha-geeks can't take criticism. They'll get into arguments. Shawn actually listens and takes the best part of what...
...body muscularity that seem out of place on a programmer. He eschews carbohydrates and hits the gym most evenings, as if bulking up for his showdown with the record industry. And a few afternoons a week he plays basketball in the Oracle gymnasium up the road from Napster's Redwood City offices. He doesn't like to admit it, but at least one co-worker confirms that he is usually the best player on the court...
Some companies and entrepreneurs are willing to shoulder the risk alone. Take Scott Martin, CEO of software developer diCarta in Redwood City, Calif. His firm will spend $4.5 million on R. and D. this year and claim a $100,000 tax credit. Martin readily admits he would be spending at his current pace even without the R.-and-D. credit. "We're a start-up," he says. "We have to spend, or we're dead...
Larry Ellison's enemies were gleefully talking trash last week. Reports were rampant that Ellison, the flamboyant CEO of softwaremaker Oracle, had hired private investigators to peruse the garbage of groups defending his archrival Microsoft in its antitrust case. Reporters descended on Larryland, as the company's Redwood Shores, Calif., campus is called, anticipating Larrygate...
...want to glimpse true parental devotion, head to the local mall in Vicksburg, Miss. Just past the JCPenney and the KB Toys, right across from the Corn Dog 7, you'll find a storefront occupied by Redwood Elementary School. A mannequin in the school's red-and-blue uniform presides over a spread of student-made dioramas and papier-mache, painstakingly displayed by Redwood parents in an all-day decorating marathon. On a recent Saturday, the school's choir serenaded shoppers while a troop of parent volunteers was on hand with brochures extolling the virtues of a Redwood education...