Rich Barton Talks About His Startup Companies
Masters in Business
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How Did Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates Meet?
"I wanted to jump through the phone line, turn the screen towards me and take control of myself," he says. "Bill Gates laughed and he said, who are you going to hire? We don't do that." But if it needs to be independent from Microsoft, we'll take a look, Bill told him. He did give us a budget and some headcount -- I was able to hire the most entrepreneurial people at Microsoft".
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