I worked at Sun in Menlo Park in the 2002 post-bubble sadness, when the satellite buildings were slowly being closed and the free coffee was being scaled back.

I worked at Sun in Menlo Park in the 2002 post-bubble sadness, when the satellite buildings were slowly being closed and the free coffee was being scaled back. I remember vividly a town hall with Johnathan Schwartz as the speaker (he was briefly CEO but wasn't at the time). One of the engineers, after hearing a speech full of buzzwords but no substance asked "Okay, but how does this actually make us money?" The engineer was politely told to shut up, focus on engineering and leave the "making money" part to the businessmen. We all know how that worked out. RIP Sun.