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Disagree. Counter example: Red Hat (disclaimer: I’m at Red Hat since almost 13 years). Founded by realistic visionaries (Bob Young and Mark Ewing). Bob was sma
by jwildeboer 9y ago
Disagree. Counter example: Red Hat (disclaimer: I’m at Red Hat since almost 13 years).
Founded by realistic visionaries (Bob Young and Mark Ewing). Bob was smart enough to bring in Matthew Szulik, who gave Red Hat structure and growth. And Matthew was smart enough to hand over to Jim Whitehurst.
Red Hat is nowadays a smooth running company with 64 quarters of growth, with a portfolio that goes far beyond Linux.
Execution is key. Having passionate employees a must.
- Godel_unicode 9y agoThis is a good point. I think that a company needs burning passion at the team level in order to succeed, and calm reasoning heads handling the day to day to allow those passionate people to continue to do what they do.
- vram22 9y agoBob Young founded Lulu.com, the ebooks and print books company, before Red Hat, IIRC. That was an early pioneering ebook and self-publishing company startup, I think.
- ghaff 9y agoLulu.com was founded in 2002 after Bob Young left Red Hat.
- vram22 9y agoOkay, I got that the other way around, thanks. Seems there was quite a gap between the two foundings, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulu.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulu.com
- vram22 9y agoLooked up Bob Young on Google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Young_(businessman) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Young_(businessman) and it seems he also was a co-founder of Linux Journal! Didn't know. Cool. His work has had quite an impact.