Stevie Bathiche's team of tinkerers occupies a niche between research and product development. Of his team's need for creative freedom, he says: "They have to feel like they can be wrong."
According to the software billionaire-turned-philanthropist, the firm missed a trick on the mobile front and didn't "get out in the lead early... clearly a mistake."
Is it possible that you imprinted on Mr. Ballmer at a time in your career at Microsoft where you needed someone with a different skill set and powerful enough presence to drive it through to a wide variety of stakeholders and to eclipse you enough for people to let go of their attachment to you?
Bill Gates' image archive company Corbis just performed a huge move, expanding into licensing music via a transparent web-based protocol. It reduces professional music to the same status as images in Corbis' archive. Here's why that might work.
