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- ▶ 2:27:15 David Rosenthal So, Brian Valentine comes over from Exchange, you know, in Windows Server in the enterprise world to take over managing, getting something out the door and just cut all the features, cut all the pillars of the Windows Longhorn vision.
- ▶ 2:27:35 David Rosenthal And then immediately afterwards, Brian leaves the company.
- ▶ 2:27:41 David Rosenthal They go down the street to Amazon and then Brian ends up leading the entire engineering platform team for amazon.com.
- ▶ 2:27:48 Ben Gilbert Oh, I didn't know that's where Brian went.
- ▶ 2:35:34 David Rosenthal I mean, hell, even taking Brian Valentine off of Exchange.
- ▶ 2:35:41 David Rosenthal And he goes and spends two years getting Vista out the door and then goes to Amazon.
- ▶ 3:42:27 David Rosenthal He had experience both in the enterprise server and tools products, and Amitabh was also a big part of getting Vista out the door with Brian Valentine before Brian left for Amazon.