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“First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado…Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you’re fired,” explains Stewart Butterfield, the boss of Slack, a two-
by minimax 11y ago
“First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado…Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you’re fired,” explains Stewart Butterfield, the boss of Slack, a two-year-old software company with a $2.8 billion valuation, quoting from David Mamet’s play “Glengarry Glen Ross”.
Except he isn't actually quoting from the play because that quote and the whole Alec Baldwin character don't exist in the play. They were added when Mamet converted Glengarry Glen Ross the play into Glengarry Glen Ross the movie. It's a really interesting story, actually.
http://www.avclub.com/article/why-iglengarry-glen-rossi-alec-baldwin-scene-is-so-82782 http://www.avclub.com/article/why-iglengarry-glen-rossi-alec...
- forgetsusername 11y agoWow, interesting. That 5 minute performance from Baldwin is the highlight of the movie though. It's great.
- applecore 11y agoAnd here's Marc Andreessen, co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, evoking the same harsh truth of Glengarry Glen Ross: “I’ve been totally determined to be on the other side of that [highly competitive, market-driven] dynamic by being here, because success in software follows a power-law distribution. It’s not Coke and Pepsi and a bunch of others; it’s winner take all. Second prize is a set of steak knives, and third prize is you’re fired.” http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/tomorrows-advance-man http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/tomorrows-advan...