October 2nd, 2005
Scoble on changing corporate culture one e-mail, post, appearance at a time
Scoble provides the logic behind his personal note to Ballmer or Gates in response to my post. An excerpt from his post:
"I say, let’s have a little fun working at Microsoft. And, yes, I am trying to improve our company’s position and make sure we’re doing our best to fill real customer need (and there are several covered in my acquisition idea). Not to mention we’d get some damn awesome developers to join our team too! Not to mention I see a very real business opportunity here that I don’t think many people see. Hey, isn’t it about developers, developers, developers? Nothing like a little acquisition to do that. Just ask Yahoo or Oracle or eBay about why they spent billions in M&A lately."
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