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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. And what happens is you have a lot of people that are either engineering or non-engineering that end up in PM roles that can’t think across the whole thing… “. Some Angel groups endorse it. Oblong, Minority Report, and the rise of Spatial Operating Systems.

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10 CEOs Who Made Huge Mistakes

Up and Running

However, one area where he fell short was in ignoring the search engine market. While Microsoft introduced MSN Search in 1998, the site purely used an existing search engine, Inktomi, to gather results. It seems all Gates’ attention was focused on browsers, allowing Google to come along and become everyone’s search engine of choice.