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Seagate CEO is totally Valley's grossest dad
In an otherwise interminably boring Dean Takahashi interview, Bill Watkins, CEO of hard-drive maker and Robert Scoble sponsor Seagate, offers up this observation: "I had a discussion with a guy on one trip. I told him that the most important thing in my life was to get my daughters through high school without them becoming pregnant." This is the same guy, we'll remind you, whom we named a "hero" for forthrightly admitting, "We're building a product that helps people buy more crap — and watch porn." More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Jimmy the Saint: "For the crime of oversharing, Watkins has gone from hero to zero" Ricki Lake is now writing for Valleywag? more » | Other threads
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Bill Watkins, the delightfully candid CEO of hard drive manufacturer Seagate Technology, teams up with former Seagate CEO Steve Luczo to buy professional lacrosse team the San Jose Stealth. [National Lacrosse League] -
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"He was talking for 45 minutes about 'design' and 'emotion'... All we wanted to know was, how much is that light gonna cost?" — the always refreshing Bill Watkins, CEO of disk drive manufacturer Seagate, points out the differences between the designers and engineers.
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