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Ahh..so this is what it looks like when you have egg on your face. Why do people keep doing this? Over and over again.

• SwellJoe 15y ago
  Seven out of ten isn't all that bad. Sure, they didn't realize what a force git would become, and Zuckerberg showed them a thing or two, and Hastings/Netflix turned out to be smarter than anyone gave them credit for. But, the rest of them...yeah, pretty good calls. Some of their 50 people who matter were stupid choices, however.
  • srl 15y ago
    > Seven out of ten isn't all that bad. Actually, it's pretty terrible - bear in mind that they could have picked ten (reasonably well-known) people at random, and chances are 8, 9, or all of them would be "has-beens" in four years.
    • SwellJoe 15y ago
      These aren't merely "reasonably well-known" people. They're people who changed the world in one way or another. Though, the people who had most changed the world back then, turned out to continue to change the world...their boldest choices turned out to be the most wrong. So, you might be right. Where they went bold, they got it wrong. Where they chose people obviously in decline (Ballmer, Schwartz, etc.), they turned out to be right...but it wasn't surprising to anyone (me included, as I remember reading this article when it was new).