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Can you please clarify what you mean by assertive approach? You continually use Microsoft as an example, but I don't really think spending half a decade in cour
by fallentimes 18y ago
Can you please clarify what you mean by assertive approach? You continually use Microsoft as an example, but I don't really think spending half a decade in courts is assertive.
Or maybe you could use some mid sized companies as examples as Google and Microsoft are both anomalies.
- mattmaroon 18y agoMy guess would be that he means, for instance, shipping IE for free and essentially destroying Netscape was ruthless and/or assertive. He's probably forgetting that that occurred in 1995, one decade after Windows first appeared, and two decades after Microsoft was founded.
- pg 18y agoIt's funny that you two have taken up the question. When I first read that comment about lack of killer instinct, there were certain YC founders who immediately popped into my head as people whose faces I'd have liked to hear him say that to...
- mattmaroon 18y ago:)