So is Marc Andreessen. And Philippe Kahn. The icons of the software industry. We gravitate to these personas. Stories need great heroes.
Every icon has a story.
Bill Joy is the quiet and thoughtful introvert, the Unix geek. Marc is the young, rich, brilliant rebel. Kahn is the Pete Rose on the rise. Read about these people in PC Week , Business Week , and Newsweek . The reporters need a dramatic hero to hang their stories on.