Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Androbot, a San Jose, Calif., company, planned to go public in June largely on the reputation of its chief backer, Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell, and some 4-ft-high rolling robots exhibited at trade shows. Even though the company was less than 18 months old and had lost money on each of the 400 robots it had sold, Merrill Lynch valued the initial public offering at $73 million. Eventually the company and its bankers decided to postpone the issue...
...talent for finding young companies ready to go public and selling their stock. He spends nearly half his time on the road, particularly in California, scouting for prospects. In 1983 Rothschild underwrote new issues worth $1.4 billion. The biggest: a $123 million stock offering in Diasonics, a Milpitas, Calif., firm that makes advanced medical diagnostic devices. On that deal, Rothschild earned a fee of $1.7 million...
...M.I.T.-trained electrical engineer with a Master's in business from Harvard, the Illinois-born Perkins went west 27 years ago to work at Hewlett-Packard, the Palo Alto, Calif., electronics firm. In 1966 he took $15,000 that he and his wife had been saving to buy a house and invested it in University Laboratories, a Berkeley, Calif., laser company. That stake returned $2 million and launched Perkins' career as a venture capitalist...
William Hambrecht: Green Thumb. Hambrecht feels a great sense of accomplishment when he picks a bunch of ripe, juicy Zinfandel grapes from his 140-acre vineyard in Sonoma County, Calif., or clips a dazzling orchid in his San Francisco greenhouse. "I like to grow things," he says...
...Last year, when Diasonics announced that it would lose $5 million to $7 million in the third quarter. Rock spent hours huddled with senior managers, helping them pinpoint weaknesses and reorganize the company. Says Joseph Rizzi, founder of ELXSi International, a Rock-financed computer company in Sunnyvale, Calif: "Arthur has the uncanny ability to say one or two things that can get you pointed in the right direction." Concurs Paul Levy, 28, president of Rational Machines, a 33-month-old computer company launched under Rock's wing: "I wouldn't think of hiring a senior executive without having...