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I legitimately can't tell if this is serious or not
by sharkweek 13y ago
I legitimately can't tell if this is serious or not
- unono 13y agoTotally serious. Much of Apple's meteoric rise in the 2000s was because of the Steve Jobs brand, and Apple 2000s is the success you want to copy. All the above listed are the biggest names in tech today. There are others, Gates, Ellison, Zuckerburg, but I don't consider them as talented as the ones I listed.
- ignostic 13y agoLet's look outside the startup world for second. Managing large, sprawling corporations is nothing like starting a company with a few products. I'm not saying it's harder, but it requires a different skill set. Neither Musk nor Graham have a proven history managing large and diversified companies. MS doesn't want them, and I seriously doubt they'd even be interested in the job. It'd be like recruiting Lebron James to play baseball.
- unono 13y agoPG hasn't been running a startup, but managing hundreds of them. A large company is just a large number of small groups. A startup is a small group. PG is someone who has proven effective at managing to give a big ROI from managing quite a few small groups. Hence he is eminently suited to running a large corporation.
- benologist 13y agoYC startups are independent and autonomous, the only people running them are their own CEOs.
- unono 13y agoSo PG would be really good at delegating, another plus point for him as future Microsoft CEO.
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- gdilla 13y agoMuch of Apple's metoric rise in the 2000s was from destroying everyone in mp3 players and then 2008, a thing called the iPhone. And selling lots of those.
- unono 13y agoAnd how did they do that? Buzz, created by Steve Jobs, much of it from his pioneer status from the 80s. They had a built-in market to whom they can sell high-priced items (Apple fanboys) where they recoup costs. Then, after that, they make profits from non-fanboys. (They don't like to talk about this, but that's how they internally plan it).
- sliverstorm 13y agoIt wasn't clear, until the trillions part.
- unono 13y agoYou appear to delight in tearing down my suggestion with your multiple comments, and in knocking PG - whilst on PG's site. The biggest successes are in tech are from highly regarded, but less socially polished, techies (classic nerds), not manager types people which you appear to be pushing for (witness Balmer or Whitman).
- sliverstorm 13y agoYou appear to delight in tearing down my suggestion with your multiple comments Microsoft has 8329956402 shares outstanding. Do you honestly believe that MSFT stock price can rise to value in the trillions, making the MSFT market cap ten sextillion dollars? knocking PG - whilst on PG's site. First, I wasn't knocking pg, I was asking a question. Second, when did use of his site constitute a requirement to idolize him? The biggest successes are in tech from... Ah, the ol' "techies can do everyone elses job better than them" trope. Yes, we are so awesome! Why should you have a dentist give you a root canal, when you could have a classic nerd do it instead!
- cmsmith 13y ago>Microsoft has 8329956402 shares outstanding. Do you honestly believe that MSFT stock price can rise to value in the trillions, making the MSFT market cap ten sextillion dollars? He said the market cap would be trillions, not the share price.
- dragonwriter 13y agoThat was a later edit; when I first read it (after the post you about the # of shares outstanding and the resulting calculated market cap), it said "stock" not "market cap".
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