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TAPE SUCKS: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story

TAPE SUCKS: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story

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Silicon Valley has been birthing renegade technology companies for the better part of a century, a storied lineage that traces from Stanfords Fred Terman to the Varian brothers Klystron amplifier, from the hallowed garage of Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard to the bold traitorous eight who fled Shockley Labs to form Fairchild Semiconductor. These companies, to be sure, broke new science and engineering groundyet their most lasting legacy may well be their pioneering approach to business itself. They blazed a path that led to Intel, Apple, Oracle, Genentech, Gilead, Sun, Adobe, Cisco, Yahoo, eBay, Google, Salesforce, Facebook, Twitter, and many, many others. What causes a fledgling company to break through and prosper At the highest level, the blueprint is always the same: An upstart team with outsized ambition somehow possesses an uncanny ability to surpass customer expectations, upend whole industries, and topple incumbents. But how do they do it If only we could observe the behaviors of such a company from the inside. If only we were granted a first-person perspective at a present-day Silicon Valley startup-cum-blockbuster. What might we learn This documentthe story of Data Domains rise from zero to one billion dollars in revenueis your invitation to find out. For anyone curious about the process of new business formation, Tape Sucks offers a provocative, ripped-from-the-headlines case study. How does a new company bootstrap itself What role does venture capital play Why do customers and new recruits take a chance on a risky new player Frank Slootman, who lived and breathed the Data Domain story for six years, offers up his clear-eyed, first-person shooter version of events. Youre with him on the inside as he and his team navigate the tricky waters of launching a high-technology business. Youll feeldeep in your gutthe looming threat of outside combatants and the array of challenges that make mere survival an accomplishment
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Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
1646
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Published: English
ISBN10:
0615484069
Weight:
159 g
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