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Excellent point. Back during the 1990s and the dot com boom Microsoft couldn't compete at all with startups, but moving to the Valley was a big barrier to a lo
by jdp23 16y ago
Excellent point. Back during the 1990s and the dot com boom Microsoft couldn't compete at all with startups, but moving to the Valley was a big barrier to a lot of people.
More recently a lot of Microsoft people have gone to Amazon or Google (which has done a lot of hiring in Seattle and for a while was aggressively recruiting MS folks) ... it'd be interesting to see how the numbers compare with FB/Google crossover.
- chunkbot 16y agoI'm sorry, but the notion that Microsoft "couldn't compete at all with startups" back during the 1990s is ludicrous. For everyone who doesn't remember the bad old days, they were huge competition.
- jdp23 16y agoi'm sorry, badly phrased by me ... i meant "couldn't compete on compensation".