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Go Anywhere, Get Anything

Reid Hoffman

And I really learned how to run a technology company and how important and fundamental it is to have the tech backend and the systems and the architecture that you need to move forward. [I The way that Travis had set up Uber was a kind of vertical stack, very loosely coupled efforts, and any GM was essentially the CEO of their own city.

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CIOs Are from Mars; CMOs Are from Venus: Seven Ways To Bridge The Great Divide

YoungUpstarts

So Corporate America has a dogs vs. cats problem — or perhaps a “Mars vs. Venus” problem is more appropriate. Masterful execution makes up one of the triangle’s two vertical sides. (I Rest assured these meetings aren’t spent with everyone in agreement, congratulating each other on their perfect ideas.

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supermac War Story 7: Rabbits Out of the Hat - Product Line Extensions

Steve Blank

The plug-in co-processor architecture was too complex and couldn’t be made to work reliably. However, the mistake would be to confuse the interest in consumer facing companies with mass interest in the rest of corporate America. Instead of the family of eight products we were expecting, only one could be delivered.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

oz burgers as fast as possible, and commit the rest of your career to an endless series of McDonalds menus. The rest of us have some fine dining to enjoy. I doubt anything can beat it the rest of this year. It’s like arguing against vertical software. Self-aggrandizing blowhards like yourself are a dime a dozen.

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