I was a manufacturing technician at Genentech until late last year. Even though we in the manufacturing end of the business rather than R&D have little reason to regard him either way, he is universally regarded within the whole company with not only respect and admiration, but inspired loyalty for how he steered the company during the worst of our growing pains. When I actually met him, it was easy to see why. Although he is the boss of the place, he regularly eats with everyone else at one of the S