[MisterBastahrd]

Bill Gates was attempting to run a for-profit business in a domain that he was an expert in.

Most people who are blunt tend to use their rudeness to hide their inability to grasp the full context of the arguments being made.

[hinkley]

Employees with too much self esteem are more expensive. 1990's Microsoft was run like Neverland, with all the cruel behaviors of a bunch of middle school children with no adult supervision. Whether he knew it or not, feeding their egos in a not-quite healthy way makes people easier to control for a useful period of time. We are the greatest, only we don't quite believe that's true so we have to be very, very loud about it.

They were Rupert Mannion, not Ted Lasso.