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In my early 20's, which was the late 80's, I became friends with the same age son of the then CEO of DEC. About all I can say there is that larger extended fami
by bsenftner 6y ago
In my early 20's, which was the late 80's, I became friends with the same age son of the then CEO of DEC. About all I can say there is that larger extended family of their CEO and it looked like the entire social set of their C Suite was completely out of control with wealthy excess, including the CEO himself. Being the 80's, that wealthy excess was luxury goods, travel and expensive drugs. I remember his father learning I was a developer and saying he could get me in at good spot, and my thoughts were "and join your excess club? no thanks." FWIW, not a single person I knew from back then in that crowd is successful today.
- loph 6y agoThat was not Ken Olsen, I can assure you. It might have been Bob Palmer, but I don't think he was ru(i)nning the company until the early 90s. Ken was a frugal and deeply religious man. The first time I met him, he was picking up trash in the parking lot outside the Mill, and he offered to hold the door for me because I was carrying a stack of books. Ken Olsen made Digital a great place to work, until he was forced out. The company would not subsidize birth control with their health insurance, but would pay for a couple to have up to 3 IVF proceedures, which were 5 or 6 figures back in the day.
- bsenftner 6y agoI'm pretty sure this group was the last C Suite.