> The Soul of a New Machine There's a software-industry version of that book about the startup Ask Computer Software killing it in the MRP business software sp

> The Soul of a New Machine There's a software-industry version of that book about the startup Ask Computer Software killing it in the MRP business software space with a product called MANMAN. Maybe somebody remembers the title? It's like reading a long version of one of Paul Graham's essays. Some of the things it covers: - Ask's actual relationships with customers. One of them interviews all other existing clients before buying (like 200 companies.) - the software team dynamics. One "rockstar" polyfills over all the weird OS bugs at the time, so the others can work on the actual application. Ask eventually acquired Ingres. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASK_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASK_Group