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erwin blom
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It was late 1996, and eBay’s online auction business had been solidly profitable since it was launched; the company did not need a cent. But Pierre Omidyar, twenty-nine, the original founder, and his new partner, Jeff Skoll, thirty-one, were the rare entrepreneurs who knew they needed to hire a CEO and other seasoned executives with skills they lac
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It didn’t take long to see that in Silicon Valley, non-engineers were pressed to prove their value. Hiring the first nontechnical employee was always the end of an era. We bloated payroll; we diluted lunchtime conversation; we created process and bureaucracy; we put in requests for yoga classes and Human Resources. We tended to contribute positivel
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Jan+Dirk van+der+Borg
@jdvdborg
02/06 - Pitch Event: Trilobio
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Friso van de Stadt
@friso
One of the most dangerous transitions that a company makes is going from fewer than ten team members to more than twenty in a short time. During this time, communication and productivity usually break down. The system of group organization that existed when the company was all sitting in the same room together suddenly no longer works when team mem
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