While writing The Nudist on the Late Shift, Po Bronson visited the office of Yahoo! co-founder David Filo. When Filo was 'only' worth $500 million, he shared a cubicle, and often slept under his desk. Now that he was worth billions, Bronson reported, Filo no longer slept there -- but only because there was no longer enough room; his entire cubicle was crammed with piles of paper.
"How ironic," Bronson remarked, "that the guy who has engineered the most popular directory for organizing the morass of the world wide web has been utterly unable to engineer an organizational system for his paper flow."
["And I can't say much more about him," Bronson added, "other than I think that, regarding his billion dollars, he too is one of the odd ones. It hasn't made him go weird. However weird he may be, that was already there." So much for the paperless office...]
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Po Bronson, The Nudist on the Late Shift And Other True Tales of Silicon Valley
