Sun 15 Jun 2008
Dave Hitz on NetApp: Spear Fishing or Casting a Wide Net?
Posted by jtmcarthur under Product development, Startups, Storage and Data Management, Technology
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I recently had the pleasure of reading a draft of Dave Hitz’ new book (title intentionally withheld, so as not to play the spoiler). Dave is one of the co-founders of NetApp (nee’ Network Appliance), and he wrote the book, at least in part, to give current NetApp employees a view into the early days of the company. At recent growth rates, I suspect that substantially more than half of the employees have been with the company fewer than five years and missed not only the startup days, but the turnaround days, post-2001. (more…)