Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

All the radar operator would see was noise, rather than airplanes. Every movie I had seen – 12 O’clock High, Memphis Belle, etc. – assumed that there were no electronics other than radios on these bombers. I ultimately answered that call, joining Sun Microsystems with a 3-digit employee number. Every one of them. (To

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View from Seed

MAY 28, 2020

The food supply chain has been rattled with distribution shifting from restaurants to grocery and with food production bottlenecks resulting from fewer employees at work. Meat processing companies across the country have paused operations at plants where workers have tested positive for COVID. Dairy Alternatives.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

One of those real-world examples is FedEx, the Memphis-based delivery company. When I visited Fred Smith, chairman and CEO of FedEx, at his Memphis headquarters, he said strategy was his company’s top priority. You can have the best operations. They invest in employee learning (Smarts). They are fanatics about execution.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The City of Austin operates as a council-manager form of government, where City Council sets the policy and budget and the City Manager implements both. The Board hires the CEO — or City Manager, in this case — who’s in charge of carrying out the day-to-day administrative operations for the entire organization.

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