Bruce LeSourd

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since April 25, 2001

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April 25, 2001, on ArsDigita: From Start-Up to Bust-Up:
So, there Philip is, exploiting his employees with long hours and low wages, seducing them with gimmicky benefits and the opportunity to do something cool. Rather than be satisfied with a small, successful, profitable company, he decides, for whatever reasons, to play with the big boys (Gates). So he starts growing the company by getting more wage slaves. Soon, he feels a bit out of control. The Invisible Hand is tapping on the shoulder, reminding him that you can't be a colleague and a feudal lord at the same time. Rather than getting the message, Philip decides to grow harder and faster. He brings in the evil VCs, who, in a ridiculously simple maneuver enshrined in countless Hollywood movies, wrest control of the company using a ploy that Gates would have seen through when he was still in the womb. The Invisible Hand has just bitch-slapped him back into the Ivory Tower. Now he wants to regain what he lost. But the old aD was just another exploitative company with a veneer of ...