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Big Bets vs. Little Bets and the future of HP

Harvard Business Review

Ned Barnholt is the former CEO of Agilent Technologies, the measurement company, and these days he's one of the more respected executives in Silicon Valley. The technology was great. In 1972, HP's first calculator, the HP-35, would retail at $400 at a time when the market for scientific calculators did not yet exist.

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