BUSERV 1910 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Homebrew Computer Club, West Coast Computer Faire, Steve Ballmer
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Pirates of the silicon valley: steve wozniak-narrator, first things taken over is communication, information is power. Uc berkeley 1971-student anti-war movement: steve jobs: (with pa and sw, beginning, on stage talking to bill gates-he is the second coming, those guys think they"re revolutionaries. Microsoft first office headquarters-alberquerque 1977: they can run around acting like crazies rather than being respectable like other posh companies, so its good no one know them, microsoft found out apple want ,000 contract. You survive because you make them need what you have. Ibm didn"t check the bluff and allowed gates to keep: barefoot interview but hired skulley. There is no right one way to be successful in business. Large strategic blunders: ownership of it and allow them to sell to others. The money"s in the hardware, not the software stuff. refusal of selling a mouse. Xerox (the mouse inventor, window (graphic window interface) didn"t advance because.
