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Henry Brian Valentine (born November 28, 1959 in Centralia, Washington) is the Senior Vice President, Ecommerce Platform at Amazon.com. Previously he was a Senior Vice President of the Windows Core Operating System Division (COSD) at Microsoft where he was responsible for overseeing the development of core Windows technologies such as networking and the kernel. He was also the Executive primarily responsible for the development of Windows 2000 and Windows XP, and he held the same role for the majority of Windows Vista's development cycle. During the Windows 2000 and Windows XP development cycles, Brian would hold "Windows Information Meetings" (WIMs) in a large cafeteria, where he would encourage the team by telling jokes and reading excerpts from the Weekly World News, "The Official Newspaper of the Windows 2000 team." He would often end the meeting with the commands: "Developers, fix bugs. Testers, find bugs. PM's and everybody else, stay the hell out of the way." On August 1, 200
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- • 1 investors hold the CEO, Board Member, Lead Investor role in VCSift. Brian Valentine is one of them.
- • 1,032 investors are based in Seattle, Washington, United States.
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