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Like me, and perhaps like you, Silicon Valley has not ended up where it set out to go. It has certainly progressed, but perhaps not in the direction any of us imagined or in the way we would like to see it continue. Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has called the current, central…

'What am I afraid of? You're going to start wearing sport coats and ties to work and you're going to get a nice house in Los Altos Hills, which you will rarely visit because you're always in Tokyo or Austin working a deal and you'll start saying things like "Jeez, a Mercedes is a very functional ca…

'But it's a realistic one. I don't want to fight the market on this one. You want to understand what we're up against? Microsoft dominates the operating-systems market for desktop computers, and they're gaining in the race to control big iron. They've become the gatekeeper, and it's nearly impossib…

Lloyd and the two guys in New York began discussing how much of the Everyware shares should be reserved for employees. Lloyd seemed to think it was customary to set a big percentage aside, but the two guys in New York seemed amused by that idea.

'This isn't 1986 anymore,' one said.

The other …

'Hey, what gives? You should be excited. This is your moment to be on top of the heap.'

'It's just been a long haul It's taken a lot out of me. I thought I would be excited, but feel my pulse - it's like I just woke up. You know what I really want to do right now? I want to order a burger from r…