TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington sits down with the recently laid-off Don Dodge and conducts an unofficial exit interview with the former director of business development for Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team.
Dodge, who said he was in Silicon Valley “just visiting friends,” to Arrington’s disbelief, said he might have been “too visible,” as the company’s startup liaison, and that might not have gone over too well with some at the software giant.
In an earlier post, Arrington called the move a “huge mistake,” and others expressed similar sentiments. Dodge himself wrote on his blog the layoff “left me with a cold feeling…but only for a minute or two.”
Posted by Brendan Lynch
Tags: Don Dodge, Michael Arrington, Microsoft, TechCrunch
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“I’m just visiting friends” is brilliant. Thanks for taking the time to post this, very interesting.
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