"Sorry, Baram, Byte does not intend to drain Apple's talent pool."
"I think there might be some misunderstanding… Yes, I promise."
Dean hung up the Motorola in his hand and sighed helplessly; he had already received several calls like this.
All of them, without exception, were asking Dean what exactly Byte Company was up to.
Well, it started when Valentine recruited John Chambers from us.
At that time, Dean had agreed to let Chambers go, but only if Valentine helped find his replacement.
By the way, Byte was in the process of setting up a consumer division, and Valentine was entrusted with finding its senior management as well.
Then, in the few months Dean was on the East Coast, Valentine started poaching all over the place.
It was bad enough that he was headhunting, but he particularly targeted the backbone forces of Silicon Valley.
HP, Intel, Apple... he had poached from them all, and acted very quickly too.
