Re:Bill Gates’s Favorite Business Tales, in The New Yorker
by jonahx on Sunday July 13, 2014 @11:36AM
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“To set high goals, to have almost unattainable aspirations, to imbue people with the belief that they can be achieved — these are as important as the balance sheet, perhaps more so,” Wilson said once, and other Xerox executives have often gone out of their way to emphasize that “the Xerox spirit” is not so much a means to an end as a matter of emphasizing “human values” for their own sake
Funny how this philosophy has become a prerequisite in the startup world, to the point where even trivial apps with best-case success scenarios of modest profitability must be sold with promises of changing the world (or at least an entire industry), and backstories in which their hyper-focused product, based on 3-year-old technologies, has been the founder's passion since he was 10 years old....
Funny how this philosophy has become a prerequisite in the startup world, to the point where even trivial apps with best-case success scenarios of modest profitability must be sold with promises of changing the world (or at least an entire industry), and backstories in which their hyper-focused product, based on 3-year-old technologies, has been the founder's passion since he was 10 years old....