Abe, however, is saying no. “What—you guys want to leave a sure thing?” he keeps asking us. “You think Microsoft’s going to shrink, or are you nuts?” “That’s not the point, Abe.” “What is the point, then?” “One-Point-Oh,” I said. “What?” replied Abe. “Being One-Point-Oh. The first to do something cool or new.” “And so in order to be ‘One-Point-Oh’ you’d forfeit all of this—” (Abe fumbles for le mot juste, and expands arms widely to showcase a filthy living room covered with Domino’s boxes, junk mail solicitations, Apple hard hats, three Federal Express baseball caps, and Nerf Gatling guns)
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