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10 months, 2 weeks ago

getting screwed is part of the ritual

'What is it like to look at yourself in the mirror every day, Francis?'

'Oh, don't give me that again. It doesn't work on me. I'm not thirty years old anymore. Every successful person in this town is just as ruthless as I am. And in five more years you probably will be too. You've done a good jo…

—p.251 The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest by Po Bronson
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10 months, 2 weeks ago

he got himself two more Laotians

After Andy gave his pitch, there was an awkward moment for both of them. Jimmy Porter kind of sighed, and then he just started chatting to fill up the vacuum. He said something about how half his line workers had called in sick that morning, but he knew better. It was the first day of king salmon s…

—p.209 by Po Bronson
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10 months, 2 weeks ago

what am I going to do with my money?

Conrad Goss chuckled and leaned back. 'Don't look at I don't know tech from tock.' He chuckled at that a little. 'Tech from tock not bad. But I take Travis's advice on the technology, and what he says is you guys got something on fire here. Red hot. Sure I read magazines, tool around online, try to…

—p.192 by Po Bronson
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10 months, 2 weeks ago

every self-respecting young man in Silicon Valley

Every self-respecting young man in Silicon Valley had considered the fantasy at one time or another. You could be pulling down a six-figure salary at Apple or Oracle you could have two patents registered under your own name . . . . . you could have a division of programmers under your command and i…

—p.126 by Po Bronson
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10 months, 2 weeks ago

it was a marketing decision

But then some muckety-mucks had a meeting and made a decision that any software running on the Falcon had to be able to run on old Omega computers as well - computers that didn't use parallel processing. They installed a new software upgrade, but it didn't support parallel processing. What did all …

—p.105 by Po Bronson