Larry Ellison: “Even my cat could write a browser.”
That’s some cat.
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Did I mention that Softwar is brilliant and that everyone in the tech industry should read it?
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Nearing the end of the book now; 2 quick takeaways:
1) It’s fascinating how much Microsoft was feared. I was too young for much of this, so I couldn’t grok why. Softwar drives the point home.
2) Microsoft’s weapon of choice was the bundle. I def need to dig into this.
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Jim Barksdale‘s famous quip “there are only two ways to make money in business: one is to bundle; the other is unbundle” makes more sense in this context. You can’t help but obsess over the bundle when Microsoft was consistently using it to trip you up.
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