Top exec shares business lessons
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Jeff Raikes was working at Apple Computer in the early 1980s when a guy named Steve Ballmer called and asked him to interview for a product-management job at a small software outfit in the Seattle area.
At the time, Raikes didn't really want to move to Seattle, but his sister lived on Queen Anne, so he considered the interview a good way to get a free trip to see her. However, once Raikes arrived and saw what was going on at Microsoft, he became fascinated and decided to take the job.
Apple's Steve Jobs wasn't pleased. Taking the job was risky, Jobs told Raikes, because Microsoft was going to go out of business.