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My understanding from reading the Soul of new machines and Showstoppers is that earlier innovative firms in the 70s and 80s have "characters" that were defined
by markus_zhang 2y ago
My understanding from reading the Soul of new machines and Showstoppers is that earlier innovative firms in the 70s and 80s have "characters" that were defined by their leaders (unlike nowadays it's mostly an army of professional managers assigned by the board). But it's probably still true nowadays, but we don't see many of these low level system companies popping up anymore.
- ghaff 2y agoI'm not sure it was all that different. De Castro also got ejected by Data General's board in the early 90s or so. And there were certainly plenty of professional managers at the minicomputer companies.