I'll never forget how an employee at a Silicon Valley VC tried to dissuade me from joining Microsoft Research because MSFT wasn't "really a 'tech' company." Acc

I'll never forget how an employee at a Silicon Valley VC tried to dissuade me from joining Microsoft Research because MSFT wasn't "really a 'tech' company." According to the VC, examples of tech companies were Airbnb or the million "Uber for X".