Chapter 7Alan Shugart
Entrepreneurs have a reputation for being very verbal people. They have to be, to take a private vision and make it a public reality. Engineers, on the other hand, are often perceived as being nonverbal. Something works or not, and all the words in the world won’t make it fly if it’s not designed right.
The people profiled so far, though each has a background as an engineer, responded as entrepreneurs to questions put to them; that is to say, they responded at some length. However, one of Silicon Valley’s best-known, most highly regarded engineer/entrepreneurs, Alan Shugart, said he would prefer to be asked only questions he could answer with a yes or no. Once the conversation began, however, he spoke at somewhat greater ...
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