Linux

When Linux was a Struggling Challenger In 1999 I joined my first startup, Linuxcare in San Francisco. The Linuxcare story is a quintessential United States dot-com bubble narrative, featuring a famous venture capital fund, massive growth, a failed IPO, a fancy new ex-IBM CEO resigning under a cloud. Founded in 1998, it was designed to be the “800 number for Linux”, a concept that history shows was a good one at the time and it could have worked. ...