Empire Builders · EB-036
HE PITCHED SOFTWARE WITH NO SERVERS. I SHOWED HIM THE 1996 NETBOOK GRAVEYARD. HE QUIT ANYWAY.
I still have the diary entry from December 18, 1998, the night Marc told me he was leaving. He walked into my office intending to deliver enterprise software over the internet, and despite all my warnings about past failures, he filed for resignation within eleven weeks.
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