Gawker: valleywag, bill watkins

Seagate CEO is totally Valley's grossest dad

Owen Thomas — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:20:00 EDT

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."

When it comes to discussing the sex lives of one's daughters on the record, however, we draw the line. For the crime of oversharing, Watkins has gone from hero to zero — and become our latest Silicon Valley Tool.

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Bill Watkins, the delightfully candid CEO...

Megan McCarthy — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:43:02 EDT

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]

"He was talking for 45 minutes about 'design'...

Megan McCarthy — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:38:46 EDT

"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.