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...entered HBS shortly after finishing Dartmouth and then went on to work at a startup company called Golder, Thoma, Cressey...
...entrepreneurs have already moved the headquarters of their multi-million dollar startup company into the space and plan to open a juice bar after renovating the building's first floor...
Longtime competitors raise a more philosophical issue about Gates: his intensely competitive approach has poisoned the collaborative hacker ethos of the early days of personal computing. In his book Startup, Jerry Kaplan describes creating a handwriting-based system. Gates was initially friendly, he writes, and Kaplan trusted him with his plans, but he eventually felt betrayed when Gates announced a similar, competing product. Rob Glaser, a former Microsoft executive who now runs the company that makes RealAudio, an Internet sound system, is an admirer who compliments Gates on his vision. But, he adds, Gates is "pretty relentless. He's Darwinian...
...comes down to the same traits that his psychologist noted when Gates was in sixth grade. "In Bill's eyes," says Glaser, "he's still a kid with a startup who's afraid he'll go out of business if he lets anyone compete." Esther Dyson, whose newsletter and conferences make her one of the industry's fabled gurus, is another longtime friend and admirer who shares such qualms. "He never really grew up in terms of social responsibility and relationships with other people," she says. "He's brilliant but still childlike. He can be a fun companion...
...Macintosh, for instance, some programs add new extensions to the System Folder. While an extension by itself is a small file, each one is run by the system at startup, forcing users to wait impatiently while several rows of icons fill the "Welcome to Macintosh" screen...