Word: braun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Jobs' remarks are repeated to Jeff Braun, he says, "That's what it's about! It's a vision." Braun is the co-founder of Maxis, which makes computer-simulation games. The company went public last May, and now Braun's stake is valued at about $79 million. To commemorate deals, investment banks make Lucite cubes containing miniature versions of the "tombstone" ads that run in newspapers announcing an offering. Braun holds up his memento of the Maxis IPO and says, "I'm proud of this. This represents the maturing of the company. It says you're an adult...
...youth, Braun, 40, didn't seem headed for the real world. A native of Los Angeles, he spent eight years going to various colleges--Claremont Colleges in Pomona, Lake Tahoe Community College, Sacramento State--without ever receiving a degree. Eventually, he dropped out to earn $15 to $20 an hour working for a video-game distributor. "I got a lot of experience playing the early arcade games," he says with a grin, "'testing,' as we used to say, to make sure the machines worked properly--for hours...
...Will Wright, who showed Braun a game called Metropolis that he had been working on. "I went ballistic," Braun says. "I knew immediately." Wright told him that everyone had turned the game down, but Braun asked him if he wanted to form a company based on the product. For the next two years, Braun and Wright worked out of Braun's apartment. "The programmers were in the living room, and the kitchen was the mail room," Braun says. "One of the bedrooms was an administrative office, and the other bedroom was mine, and it had a sign that said keep...
...NEWFOUND WEALTH, Braun sounds like Andreessen. "What you're seeing is a lot of zeroes in your net worth, but not a lot of zeroes in your bank account. It's not real! I can't go to a 7-Eleven and buy a Coke with that money." He too has modest tastes. "I'm not into boats. I'm not into planes. I'm not into clothes. So it's really hard for me!" he says, laughing. "So what's available? I got myself a nicer home, and that's about it. And I went out and bought...
...Senators Carol Mosely Braun and Paul Wellstone courageously blocked the $16 billion recission bill scheduled to become law this week, official Washington made a belated effort to cover the immediate harm which such cutbacks will inflict on the poor and elderly. Yet the spectacle of serious advocacy on Capitol Hill for the disadvantaged may have distracted the press from the larger story behind conservatives' blitzkrieg attacks on American social programs. The Contract with America represents not merely a Republican effort to enact conservative ideology, but also a strategy to permanently entrench Republican majorities through a systematic effort to cripple political...