At that moment Kelman realized it was no longer his job to protect his friend.
Kelman comes home some nights itching to complain about work but has to stop himself.
Kelman glared at Teja for a couple of weeks, barely talking to him, until it blew over.
Reidy considers Kelman his best friend but wants that to be a nonissue at work.
Kelman feels guilty that he's likely going to be wealthier than the friends he works with.
If Kelman feels awkward, pity Reidy's immediate supervisor, Steven Pattison, who was brought in from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Add to the mix the fact that Pattison and Kelman didn't see eye-to-eye initially.
It was only over time that the Kelman method became the cheaper, better standard of care.
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After Kelman walked away Kim asked everyone in shouting distance for help until he managed to fix the problem.
But he didn't complain for fear he'd get the office only because of his closeness with Kelman.
Word got back to Kelman that a friend who was working at Mobshop wasn't being treated well.
This bothers Kelman, who fears his friends will think they picked the wrong startup to work at.
His status notwithstanding, Kelman has a penchant for walking around nude and challenging Kim to push-up competitions.
Pattison didn't know if Reidy was up to the job and, worse, thought that he was protected by Kelman.
Kim has a tiny desk and Reidy a standard cubicle, while Kelman reigns in a corner office with two windows.
Reidy once asked Kelman to read an e-mail he had written that was critical of how Plumtree management--including Kelman--handled a deal.
Pattison wanted to push Reidy more and didn't want interference from Kelman.
Kelman was an English major who once struggled to write a novel.
Once Kelman and Reidy were making bets about the current quarter's results.
Another is Wendy Kelman Neu, the chief executive of Hugo Neu Corp.
What would the high lords of evidence-based medicine have made of Kelman?
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Kelman, aware of the most up-to-date figures, worried about meeting expectations.
At home one night Kelman suggested Reidy transfer away from Pattison.
At 11 p.m. that day Kim walked out of his cubbyhole and picked up Kelman from his corner office to go home together.
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Kelman, part of the four-person management team, helped Reidy and Kim get their jobs, and today a third of the 140 employees are from networks of friends.
At home the roommates are firmly equals, sharing a single bathroom and what little housework they manage to fit in (Kelman takes out the garbage).
John Kim, 29, was on day four at his job at Plumtree Software when the company cofounder Glenn Kelman asked him to fix the firm's demonstration Web site.
Kelman resolved his conflict by suggesting Reidy shorten it.
So Kelman would have flunked the cost test too.
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