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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Loading… New York. In the 1990s Internet boom, easy money helped founders maintain more control early in a companys evolution, but founder CEOs without voting control often got replaced by a professional manager ahead of an IPO. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Juno IPO’d while Joel was there, and it was the first “broken&# IPO of the dot-com era. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. Lesson: Joel had been building a community of readers since 2001.