Watkins was fired as the chief executive of disk drive maker Seagate in January 2009 due to a disagreement over strategy.

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"The public perception has been that solid-state will take over the world and run disk makers out of business, but you can't bring that product to market without licensing disk drive technology, " said WilliamWatkinsWilliam Watkins, Seagate's chief executive, in an interview with Forbes.

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"The public perception has been that solid-state will take over the world and run disk makers out of business, but you can't bring that product to market without licensing disk drive technology, " said William Watkins , Seagate's chief executive, in an interview with Forbes.

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