It was great to catch my friend Robert Stephens, founder of Geek Squad and now CTO of Best Buy, this morning at breakfast. It was right before his opening keynote, and he gave me kind of a sneak peak to his talk. We covered a lot of topics, and could have gone on even longer... here's the 10-minute interview:
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