Contents
Before NetApp: on computers, colleges, castration, and risk -- Starting NetApp: on toasters, angels, resellers, and Ferraris -- CEO lessons: on pixie dust, decision making, candor, and going public -- Hypergrowth: on goals, doubling, ancestors, and pain -- Values and culture: on Dilbert, drooling, lies, and game theory -- Managing engineers: on development, consensus, doctor death, and magic -- Customers: on love, enterprise, simplicity, and partners -- Strategic change: on reversing course, chocolate, debates, and core beliefs -- Vision: on whining, eras, future history, and the meaning of life