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...grew up a second-generation Korean Japanese in a country that has traditionally had little tolerance for immigrants, least of all Koreans. When Son started Softbank in 1981, his ambitions so unnerved his first two employees that they quit within two weeks. The 39-year-old Japanese entrepreneur, who made his first $1 million at age 20 by selling an electronic-pocket-translator patent to Sharp, never blinked. Barely graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, he begged and borrowed enough to build a company that by 1995 controlled half the Japanese market for personal-computer software...
...story is about a young entrepreneur who (like McGowan) gets frustrated with the ineptitude of a middle-sized computer company (like McGowan's former employer, Silicon Graphics) and quits to launch his own scrappy start-up (like McGowan's Pantheon Interactive, an Internet design and consulting shop). "The first chapter," says McGowan,"was like reading my exit interview...
Many in Utah are similarly unpersuaded by the suggestion that they will benefit from an increase in free-spending tourists. Rancher Dell LeFevre, whose land is surrounded by the monument, was told by an entrepreneur that he could get $5 million if he sold his spread to a developer. "I don't give a damn if they offer me $10 million," he asserts. "I just want to be a cowboy...
...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...