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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

We were on the University of North Carolina campus to meet with Fred Brooks and Henry Fuchs. My ex-boss was going to be the VP of Engineering and I would report to the CEO whose marketing acumen and sales instincts seemed at the time to be telepathic and sense of theater was legend. We were going to be guessing.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

And a company culture and values need to be design and engineered just like the product. . The features didn’t match what ultimately the customers would buy or wanted. …The The features didn’t match what ultimately the customers would buy or wanted. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. It was maybe 100 degrees.