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visit our website startup story Zion for
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more inspirational stories and updates
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from the startup world when I started
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Microsoft I didn't think of it as all
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that risky I mean I was so excited about
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what we were doing
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it's true I could have gone bankrupt but
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you know I had a set of skills that were
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highly employable and in fact my parents
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were still willing to let me go back to
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Harvard and finish my education if I
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wanted to and so then I got this
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incredibly conservative approach that I
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wanted to have enough money in the bank
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to pay a year's worth of payroll even if
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we didn't get in he any payments coming
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in
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one of my biggest memories of Harvard
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came in January 1975 when I made a call
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from courier house to a company in
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Albuquerque New Mexico that had begun
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making the world's first personal
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computer I offered to sell them software
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I worried they would realize I was just
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a student in a dorm and hang up on me
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instead they said we're not quite ready
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come see us in a month which was a good
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thing because we hadn't written the
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software yet from that moment i work day
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and night on the extra-credit project
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that marked the end of my college
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education and the beginning of a
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remarkable journey with Microsoft
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if you're gonna start a company it takes
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so much energy that you know you it
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better overcome your your feeling of
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risk I don't think that you necessarily
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if you're gonna start a company should
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do it at the start of your career I
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think there's a lot to be said for
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working for a company learning how they
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do things when people are first
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skeptical and then go this kid doesn't
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know anything then when you show them
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you've really got a good product and you
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know something they actually tend to go
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overboard and they think whoa you know
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they know a lot let's really do an
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incredible amount with these people so
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our youth at least in this country was a
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huge asset for us once we reached a
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certain threshold those those problems
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that come with starting the firm you
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better think of those as as part of the
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the pledge or part of the the challenge
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that that is part of the excitement
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you can't just keep doing the same old
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thing you were doing before we have to
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take your skills and attack the new
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frontiers in the business of technology
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you have to think about what are you
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missing what is the research or customer
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feedback but you should be paying more
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attention to and how do you keep that
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piece of innovation very very high how
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do you make sure you're hiring the very
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best people and that kind of focuses has
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helped drive us forward through all the
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milestones the company has had you've
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got to enjoy what you do every day
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and for me that's working with very
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smart people it's working on new
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problems you know every time we think
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hey we've had a little bit of success
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we're pretty careful not to dwell on it
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too much because the bar gets raised
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people's expectations of the products
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we've always got customer feedback
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telling us that machines are too
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complicated they're not they're not
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natural enough about 25 percent of the
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time that I'm out traveling around
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meeting with customers Europe Asia and
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that sort of helps me think okay do we
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have the right priorities but what are
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people responding well to and what would
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they they like to see us do better the
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competition the the breakthroughs the
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research but the computer industry in
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particular software you know I I think
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is the most exciting and I think I have
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the best job in that in that business
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and you all have a chance to innovate if
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you're thinking about your innovation
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and of course you should go after any
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market do you think is interested in it
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but a little bit if you can also think
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ok does this innovation apply to those
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most in need you know what are you gonna
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do to make it cheap enough simple enough
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you know figure out how to get get it so
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it really if possible can extend out to
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the poorest you know I wish I had
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learned more about that at a young age
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and so you haven't an opportunity to do
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that
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