Once a month the company rented the Los Gatos Cinema and brought in pizzas from the Round Table pizzeria two doors down. These gatherings always began with the “initiation” of new employees—many of them shy immigrant software engineers—who were required to dress as characters from a movie of McCord’s choosing, using costumes she kept in a large closet next to her office. The meetings generally centered on two topics—a report on the state of the company’s finances by McCarthy and a view of marketing initiatives and customer data by Mier. One Friday morning in September 2001, Hastings sent out
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