I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents.
From Mitch Kapor
Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects.
If you can command a lot of attention, that's what is valuable, and many in the commercial ecology would like to have a piece of that attention.
One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image.
I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do.
Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.
Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.
I'm fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve as they grow from start-ups to small companies to medium companies to big companies.
Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from bending a machine to their will. I didn't.
'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula.
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