I’m sure Reed wondered why I didn’t see the situation with the same clarity and logic as he did. I knew that Reed didn’t – couldn’t – understand what was going through my head. Thank God for that, because the words going through my head weren’t polite. I knew that a lot of what he was saying was true. But I also thought that we were talking about my company. It had been my idea. My dream. And now it was my business. While Reed had been off at Stanford and at TechNet, I’d been pouring my entire life into building the company. Was it realistic to expect anyone to get every decision right?
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