You Have To Believe In

I Saw That We Needed To Grow But Our Top Line Wasn't Growing, So We Had To Find Other Ways To Grow The Business. We Had To Reshape Our Business And Acquire Share In A Non Conventional Way. But Most Tech Leaders Don't Come Out Of A Business Background. They Really Have A Parochial Point Of View. All They Know Are The Go-go Years Of Silicon Valley. That's The Environment In Which They Were Raised.

I Am Also Involved With All The Acquisitions And Overall Strategy. Now It's True, I Don't Run Operations. But I've Never Really Run Operations. I've Never Had The Endurance To Run Sales. The Whole Idea Of Selling To The Customer Just Isn't My Personality. I'm An Engineer, Tell Me Why Something Isn't Working Or Is And I Am Curious.

When You're The First Person Whose Beliefs Are Different From What Everyone Else Believes, You're Basically Saying, "i'm Right, And Everyone Else Is Wrong." That's A Very Unpleasant Position To Be In. It's At Once Exhilarating And At The Same Time An Invitation To Be Attacked.

Bill Gates Is The Pope Of The Personal Computer Industry. He Decides Who Is Going To Build.

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