Self-professed asshole without a filter is how Bob Camp, one of my idols, describes himself. My kind of people because I’m a bit of an asshole too. Some say you should never meet your idols. I prefer to say, “Recognize your idols are ordinary people who’ve done extraordinary things.” He created the animated TV show […]
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I was sitting outside Steve’s office. Framed pages with him listed as one of the computer industry’s Top 20 executives filled the wall. So he was in good company as others were Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Larry Ellison. That was when it hit me, and I realized I was working for one of the
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The day I turned down a job offer from Steve Jobs, he spoke at Novell’s Brainshare in March 1993 (their annual geek conference) in Salt Lake City, Utah. Which at the time was a small audience. Because he was running NeXT Computers, he was showing off his latest UNIX-based operating system. It had an actual
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In December 1996, a near-beer (no alcohol beer) was in front of Steve Peer. John Herrington and I were drinking Guinness, most likely, sitting at a pub eating chicken wings. John had gotten Steve and me together because John knew this Internet thing would be huge, and we were both doing web development; therefore, we should meet. I
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The years just collapsed away. The clock had marched forward, but the friendship had not changed. Instead, the stories flowed like a babbling brook accented with mutual laughter. The person responsible for me becoming a Wizard of Ads™ Partner reconnected after twenty years at BarChef. I hired Dharmesh at the age of nineteen, straight out of high school to be
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Bill Gates was at Comdex Canada to introduce and promote Windows 95. Before his standing-room-only presentation, he toured the Microsoft Booth on the show floor. Bill, his bodyguard, and his entourage entered the booth. First up was a person demonstrating contact management software. Bill took up his familiar pose of the right hand in the
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