Comments on: What Do Bill Gates And Karch Kiraly Have In Common? They Can Go Both Ways

By: John Greathouse

John Greathouse — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:47:00 +0000

Agreed – Jobs is an excellent example of the dichotomy I describe in this entry. However, he did it the hard way, after first getting booted out for trying to play beach volleyball on a large team. When he came back to Apple, he was much more mature and measured.

By: John Greathouse

John Greathouse — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:45:00 +0000

I play infrequently and not very well. My vertical leap (esp on the sand) is about 2 1/4 inches. In the early days of Expertcity, we played sand volleyball each Friday evening. It was great fun.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:28:00 +0000

John – thanks for the article. As an avid beach volleyball player (real beach volleyball, not metaphorical), it sounds like you spend some time on the sand yourself. Do you play?

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Ten Startup Tips From Amazon Founder, Jeff Bezos — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:23:33 +0000

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By: Qiang

Qiang — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:51:55 +0000

Don’t know much about Gates, but Jobs is absolutely amazing, iPod and iPhone were both ground-breaking innovations in a market far from saturation (and therefore less pressure from existing players). How he managed to induce the culture of disruptive innovation in a BDC is a myth to me