"What should exist? To me, that's the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our potential?"
"In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging."
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Source: Paul Allen (2011). “Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft”, p.131, Penguin
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