I’m excited about the opportunity to try to rethink from a business model and user interface standpoint where search is going. - Steve Ballmer on Microsoft Venture Capitalist Summit 2008 (source)
Innovation breadth: We pride ourselves on that. It is important to be broad. If you want to give people exciting and interesting careers, it turns out you better do more than one thing. Otherwise they’ll leave you to go do the next interesting thing on their minds. So, the innovation breadth is both an HR strategy, as well as a business strategy. - Steve Ballmer on Microsoft Venture Capitalist Summit 2008 (source)
最後Ballmer和VC們提到Tenacity的重要性：不要輕易放棄。也拿了一個他本人感到滿後悔的過早出場案例：
We had this business we called Sidewalk. It was local entertainment guides. We sold it to City Search. It was all wrong. There was nothing right about the idea, not a thing. Today I wish we hadn’t sold it, because I think we would have gotten to local search and doing local search well sooner. - Steve Ballmer on Microsoft Venture Capitalist Summit 2008 (source)
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