"Cory Doctorow - Liberation Spectrum" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dodd Christina)

where I should park the bus? We've got a lot of work to do today, while
there's still light to work by."

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"You need to understand, it's not personal," MacDiarmid said, for the third
time.
Lee-Daniel set down his ridiculous second-hand crantini carton and climbed
slowly to his feet. "You need to understand, Mac, that I don't care if it's
personal. Whether you're forcing me out of this company, this company that I
built with my own two hands, this company that is hitting every goddamned
milestone, this company that is returning good dividends on your preferred
stock, whether you're forcing me out because you're not my friend anymore --"
he said this in a pinched, Mickey Mouse voice "-- or whether you're forcing me
out because you think that it's 'for the best' doesn't matter to me at all. I
don't care if you're doing it because you're protecting your investment or
because your astrologer told you to, I still won't stand for it."

The Series A and Series B investors, who'd started off looking uncomfortable,
visibly squirmed during this. They weren't accustomed to interpersonal
conflict in the course of conducting their affairs. But Mac took it all in
stride. Angels have to be prepared to slug it out to protect their investment.

"You don't get to stand for it, LD," MacDiarmid said, sipping at a frosty can
of slushy ginseng-infused Long Island iced tea. "You don't get a say in it.
When the investors are united, you don't have the equity to overrule us. The
severance package is generous, the noncompete is lightweight, and you get to
go with your dignity intact." He didn't need to add that fighting the board
would mean a significant change to that picture. Fuck them and their
noncompetition agreement, though -- Lee-Daniel knew that enforcing a
U.S./Canada noncompete would be tricky on Sovereign Indian territory.

"What'd they promise you, Mac?" Lee-Daniel asked. He'd shrewdly chosen his
investors for their mutual animosity, believing that bitter enemies like the
Series A gigafund and the Series B terafund would never come together, and
that Mac, who'd been screwed on deals by principals from both funds, would
never toss his lot in with them. "What do they have that's worth your throwing
away this entire investment?"

"No one's throwing away anything. There comes a point in any business's life
cycle where the founders get out of their depth and we need to transition in a
professional CEO. You've done a good job with CogRad, LD, and we recognize
that, but if we're going to ensure steady growth, we need seasoned
leadership."

"Seasoned?" He barked a laugh. "Mac, I invented this business! We're five
years ahead of our closest competitors -- who only got that far by copying
stuff I invented. Who the hell could possibly be more 'seasoned' than me?"

"You've never run a Fortune Five company," the Series A man said. "You've