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Behind Every Great Product

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So when Microsoft released the most "full-featured word processor ever for the Mac" that crawled on their Macs -- we're talking literally two minutes to startup-- the community immediately started posting in newsgroups that Microsoft was actually trying to "kill the Mac.". The title is not important; the work they do is.

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Why Your ‘Brilliant’ Technology Fails To Have Impact | Tom Adeyoola, Metail | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

It was I think the biggest startup in corporate history at the time. So in order to basically build a business that could succeed out the UK for me the key was being able to develop a really strong IP base a strong base of exceptionally differentiated technology. So I sat there in November 2011. And defensibility.