| Book Name: | How to Castrate a Bull PDF Book |
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Dave Hitz likes to solve fun problems. He didn’t set out to become a Silicon Valley icon, a business visionary, or billionaire. But he turned into all of them. It turns out that business is a bunch of exciting puzzles, like figuring out how to handle risk, making plans and then changing them, and figuring out what will happen in the future by breaking down what has happened in the past. Hitz is one of the founders of NetApp, a data storage company that started with an idea written on a placemat and now makes $4 billion a year. He has seen his company go through every significant business cycle, from the Jack-of-all-trades mentality of a start-up to the turbulent times of the IPO and the dot-com bust to becoming a mature enterprise company. NetApp is one of the computer companies that has grown the fastest in history. Fortune magazine has put it on its list of the Best Companies to Work For for the past six years. Not bad for someone who dropped out of high school and started working by selling his blood and typing the names of diseases onto index cards. How to Castrate a Bull is a story with colorful examples and anecdotes for anyone who wants to learn about business, why companies succeed or fail, and how powerful lessons often come from strange and unexpected places. Dave Hitz, James Lau, and Michael Malcolm started NetApp together in 1992. He was a programmer, an advocate for marketing, a technical architect, and the vice president of engineering. At the moment, he is in charge of the company’s strategy and direction for the future. Dave worked as a cowboy before he went to work in Silicon Valley. He learned a lot about how to run a business by herding, branding, and castrating cattle.
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Author(s): Dave Hitz
Publisher: Jossey-Bass, Year: 2009
ISBN: 0470345233,9780470345238
