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Barbarians Led By Bill Gates by J.Edstrom M. Eller, Pages 32-42 Not long after Edstrom signed on, she was joined by Rowland Hanson, the former vice president of marketing for Neutrogena Corporation, a maker of soap and cosmetics. Good looking, well dressed, and a computer virgin, Hanson, a die-hard surfer and beach lover, came from a world of fragrant packaged goods where appearances—image and perception—were everything. He represented all that Microsoft, in the early 1980s, was not. Until 1983, the computer industry was still so arrogant that it had no idea how truly bush league it wa