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Re:Bill Nguyen: The Boy In The Bubble by wyclif on Sunday November 13, 2011 @02:05AM (#3230217)
He flips companies. That's nice and everything, but it's not innovation. He's essentially a parasite.
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Re:Bill Nguyen: The Boy In The Bubble by OstiaAntica on Sunday November 13, 2011 @05:30AM (#3230458)
"Parasite" is unfair. You still need guys like him to agitate, to unsettle and disrupt the marketplace. Color was a pretty innovative idea, it was just terribly executed both in technology and marketing.
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Re:Bill Nguyen: The Boy In The Bubble by wyclif on Sunday November 13, 2011 @07:07AM (#3230551)
Yeah, that's unfair...I retract that. But I wouldn't suggest for a second that you don't need "guys like him" i.e. great salespeople who can sell ice to eskimos. That's why I find his arrogance so over the top insofar as he compares himself to Jobs and other innovators.
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