Pure Software

“And so that's when I vowed that in starting another company, that at least we wouldn't make that mistake. That as we grew, we would try to have less rules, not more rules.”

“You know, at Pure, I was a product guy, and I didn't think much about management, and it didn't turn out very well, so as the company grew, it got more bureaucratic we were obsessed with putting processes in place, because every time there was a mistake, we wa…”

“So that company, Pure, was a software tools company. They always get acquired. Media companies can grow to be quite large and independent.”

“Because then I was able to start a company, it doubled every year, went public, one week before Netscape, actually, and so for one week, we were the big topic.”