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father, neighbor – and Ceo. Tortured probably, in his brilliance.<br />

I saw him in his most personal element – family and<br />

friends – around a broken down car in Palo Alto one night,<br />

just by chance. I was lucky – and I was delighted.<br />

It’s one of my fondest memories.<br />

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http://www.quora.com/l/boq-tim-smith<br />

silicon valley company culture<br />

Which of the Hogwarts Houses<br />

does each of the Gang of Four<br />

companies correspond to?<br />

Peter Clark<br />

amaZon - gryffindor<br />

Gryffindor believes in bravery, daring, and nerve. Amazon, a<br />

company that sold books online, bravely decided to risk eating<br />

into their own business with their marketplace offerings<br />

(which many speculated would be the downfall of Amazon),<br />

they have displayed great bravery in keeping the pedal to the<br />

floor with their Amazon Web Services, a service vastly out of<br />

the traditional ecommerce Amazon brand.<br />

Amazon has also repeatedly shown remarkable nerve to<br />

governments, companies, and users. From revoking books<br />

from the Amazon Kindle, to revoking free shipping to American<br />

states that wanted to charge them additional costs, and<br />

flying in the face of record labels to offer their cloud offerings<br />

for hosted music.<br />

The Gryffindor element is fire, and a great fuel for fire is<br />

wood which you can find in the Amazon rainforest.<br />

faceBook - hufflepuff<br />

Facebook thrives on an environment of hard work on their<br />

product, loyalty both from users and employees (active Facebook<br />

users use the service every day), and being non-judge-

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