Word: entrepreneurism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Microsoft stock in 1996 meant he made on paper more than $10.9 billion, or about $30 million a day. That makes him the world's richest person, by far. But he's more than that. He has become the Edison and Ford of our age. A technologist turned entrepreneur, he embodies the digital...
Another of Gates' vacation companions is Ann Winblad, the software entrepreneur and venture capitalist he dated during the 1980s. They met in 1984 at a Ben Rosen-Esther Dyson computer conference and started going on "virtual dates" by driving to the same movie at the same time in different cities and discussing it on their cell phones. For a few years she even persuaded him to stop eating meat, an experiment he has since resolutely abandoned...
...risottos on a red-sauce culture are perhaps the year's most unlikely success. Primo, the chef (Tony Shalhoub), has the soul of an artist--watchful, uncompromising, mildly depressive. Secondo, the maitre d' (Stanley Tucci, who, with Campbell Scott, wrote and directed), is trying vainly to be an American entrepreneur. Stumbling toward bankruptcy, they also sail toward wisdom in this beautifully acted and utterly delicious comedy of--shall we say?--table manners...
...York City, Chicago and Denver. Forty more branches are set to open mainly through franchises in eight new markets. Says he: "I see it as the Starbucks of the year 2000. We could put one every two to three blocks." Now you know why he's an entrepreneur...
Meet H. Wayne Huizenga, billionaire entrepreneur extraordinaire. No introduction is needed, really. Huizenga hauled away your trash twice a week in the 1970s, treated you to a cheap date with video rentals in the 1980s and sated your craving for first downs, slap shots and strikeouts as a sports tycoon in the 1990s. It isn't possible to be a conscious adult and not have contributed to the Huizenga stash in some small way. Now the man who built what has become waste-giant WMX Technologies, video-king Blockbuster Entertainment and perhaps the biggest collection of sports properties anywhere (Miami...