Enabling Ecological Data Centers: Rackable Systems CEO Mark Barrenchea (Part 4)

SM: From your perspective, what does it take to become a $1 billion+ company? MB: When you have your core, you need to identify key elements and prepare for the transition. You need to bring your install base with you and make sure you transition them. You need it to have multiple geographies and routes

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Closing the Innovation Gap (Part 4)

From Closing the Innovation Gap by guest author Judy Estrin Patience and Trust Patience is a mandatory condition if innovation is to thrive, and it doesn’t have to be a passive process. Innovators need to be comfortable with abiding ambiguity for a time instead of jumping on the first idea or solution that comes along.

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Enabling Ecological Data Centers: Rackable Systems CEO Mark Barrenchea (Part 3)

SM: How long were you at Oracle? MB: I worked for Larry for about eight years. I am definitely in the Larry Ellison fan club. He is one of the smartest technicians and hardest driving executives I have ever met. I think the world of him.

Closing the Innovation Gap (Part 3)

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Enabling Ecological Data Centers: Rackable Systems CEO Mark Barrenchea (Part 2)

SM: What role did you play at Tesseract? MB: I was part of senior management and ran all of engineering. Coming into the early 1990s another team was forming to start a company called Scopus Technologies. There were a gaggle of companies going into what we termed field sales automation or a contact center; it

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Dave Chen

Dave works to increase private equity investment in sustainable commerce. Since 2003 he has participated in initiatives to define sustainable economic and energy policies in the Pacific Northwest. Dave chairs the Oregon Innovation Council and is a board member of the SF Fed Reserve Bank, Portland branch. In 2007, he worked with the Meyer Memorial

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Closing the Innovation Gap (Part 2)

From chapter one of Closing the Innovation Gap by guest author Judy Estrin Risk Failure is an inherent part of innovation. “When you start a project, you don’t know enough about the competition or customer needs. You haven’t developed the best ideas or the best technology,” says Curtis Carlson, CEO of SRI International, an independent

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