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...dangerous and you really just have to start to talk," Thatcher made her pitch to influential Hungarians both in and out of government in a series of informal meetings. Said one guest after listening to a 20-minute Thatcher homily on the improving British economy: "I almost became a capitalist...
...inventor of the integrated circuits that form the core of all modern computers, winner of the 1979 National Medal of Science and a co-founder of two pioneering and profitable California electronics companies, Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel. Noyce, 55, also plays a less publicized role as a venture capitalist. With his success has come enormous wealth. His 1.5 million shares in Intel, where he now serves as vice chairman, are worth $60 million. Along with Arthur Rock, his friend of 30 years, Noyce in 1977 helped bankroll Diasonics, the medical-instrument manufacturer. Noyce's 8% stake in Diasonics...
...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...
...watching batters try to sort curve balls from sliders and change-ups from screwballs. Since the late 1950s. Rock has been carefully scrutinizing pitches of another kind-start-up bids by young technology companies-and when he goes for one of these, he rarely misses. Says San Francisco Venture Capitalist Thomas Perkins: "Arthur Rock is the best long-ball hitter around...
...manner is detached and clinical. He refuses to let his companies waste money and conveys a harsh sense of urgency. He says little at board meetings, and will sometimes squelch woolly ideas by abruptly asking, "What good will it do?" Says his onetime partner Thomas Davis, a California venture capitalist: "He only wants the right answer." Behind Rock's understated exterior lurks a remorseless will. Notes Palevsky: "Arthur makes it clear you had better win and you had better work your ass off all the time...