“I want every product plan to try and go overboard on Internet features.”
Bill Gates
The Internet Tidal Wave (Primary source)
The Internet Tidal Wave memo, sent to Microsoft’s executive staff and direct reports on May 26, 1995, is one of the most consequential internal documents in the company’s history—less a visionary essay than a detailed competitive war plan written under a sense of strategic urgency.
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