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Sun was the market share leader, and we hoped for the same success against them as Cisco’s. We copied Cisco’s business model and would later go after the same investors that funded them. Eventually, the chairman of Cisco’s Board of Directors became the chairman of ours.
This would not be the last time that we completely reversed our strategy. You must be willing to admit when you’ve made a mistake. Spotting mistakes and then changing course can be more important than getting everything exactly right the first time. This is just as true in strategy as it is in product development.
Now Dan was saying we should talk about billions. “Can we do it?” he asked. “Well, sure we can,” said Tom, “we just need people we haven’t hired yet to sell products we haven’t built yet to customers we haven’t met yet.”
Re-reading it.
Always start with the conclusion. Somewhere in your presentation you have a conclusion slide that summarizes the proposal you hope to get approved. Put that slide first.
People often resist change, and I think part of the resistance comes from a feeling that if it’s necessary to do something different, then they must have been doing something wrong before. People don’t like to admit that they were wrong. Never mind worrying whether
Accurate whining is a careful description of how you wish the world was not. Vision is a careful description of how you wish the world would become.
I believe there will be a generation of children who are missing big chunks of their lives because their parents didn’t understand about backups.
Bottom line: No data means no beer and people die.
