February 6, 2013

Michael Dell: Is He Steve Jobs or Jerry Yang?

Sarah Lacy, Pando Daily


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The first time I traveled to Jerusalem I was warned of Jerusalem Syndrome. After all, I was traveling with a  group of semi-ego-maniacal techies and bloggers — a group that routinely likes to pretend to play God as is. None of us came down with the desire to heal people, dress in bed sheets or wander in the desert. (Not even Robert Scoble.)

But I recall the description of the strange disorder whenever a returning founder claims to have the secret to pulling off the biggest miracle in all of tech-dom: Returning an ailing technology giant to its former glory.

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