Lessons from the TOP

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Lessons from the TOP

• Bob Eaton (DaimlerChrysler)
• Michael Eisner (Walt Disney)
• Ray Gilmartin (Merck)
• Hank Greenberg (AIG)
• Sandy Weill (Citigroup)
• Alex Trotman (Ford Motor Company)
• Bill Steere (Pfizer)
• Howard Schultz (Starbucks)
• Ralph Larsen (johnsonJohnson)
• Walter Shipley (Chase Manhattan)
• and many others

• Jack Welch (General Electric)
• Bill Gates (Microsoft)
• Andy Grove (Intel)
• Lou Gerstner (IBM)
• Michael Dell (Dell Computer)
• Mike Armstrong (ATT)
• John Chambers (Cisco System)
• Fred Smith (Federal Express)
• Steve Case (America Online)
• Elizabeth Cole (American Red Cross)

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• Andrew Carnegies fathers handloom operator job
  in Scotland was mechanized
• He had only five years of education in Scotland
  and could not afford school after moving to
  Pennsylvania
• His family had leftist, pro-labor views
• Went to work at 13 as a bobbin boy in a factory,
  learned telegraph operation and management
• Built Keystone Bridge Company and Carnegie Steel
• Became famous as a strike-breaker
• Gave huge sums to philanthropy for libraries and
  world peace

Andrew Carnegie Entrepreneur Strike-Breaker Philan
thropist
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• Father a Horatio Alger figure who died when
  Fred was four years old
• Congenital bone disease made it difficult for him
  to walk
• Overcame illness with strong support from mother.
  Athlete and Best All-Around Student in high
  school
• A letter from his father implored him to put his
  inheritance to good use
• Started businesses when a teenager. A recording
  company he started with a friend at age 16 is
  still in business
• Admits to being a crummy student at Yale
• Risked his whole inheritance on the Federal
  Express startup despite everyone telling him
  there was no market for it.

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Hi-Tech Entrepreneurs
The computer Nerds who changed the world
instead of following conventional careers are
widely celebrated. Their social ineptness is a
stereotype that is often inaccurate.
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• Father self-employed mason
• Built ham radio at ten years old
• Worked his way through college
• Graduated last in his BSEE class at the
  University of Utah
• Built a company of hippies who loved playing
  games Steve Jobs worked for him before starting
  Apple

Nolan Bushnell Video Game Entrepreneur Nickname
King Pong
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• Bill Gates was impatient with those not as
  quick as he was, teachers included.
• He did better when his parents sent him to an
  elite private school
• Started a small business while in high school
• He dropped out of college to go into the software
  business

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Bill Gates father took a red eye from Seattle to
Boston to warn him he would never be a success if
he dropped out of college...
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• Steve Jobs was adopted, a loner and
  nonconformist in school, dropped out of Reed
  College
• Experimented with Indian mysticism,
  hallucinogenic drugs, communes, vegetarianism,
  fasting
• Im just a guy who should have been a
  semi-talented poet on the Left Bank. I got
  sidetracked here.

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• Steve Wozniak was the shy computer nerd who made
  a personal computer mostly because he wanted one
  for himself
• The shortest in his fourth grade class, he
  excelled Little League.
• Known for practical jokes, sabotaging school
  computers
• Strong support from his father and electronics
  teacher in high school

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• Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web,
  developing the URL and the http mark-up language
• His parents were mathematicians and computer
  programmers who encouraged him to build toy
  computers from cardboard boxes
• Programming, imaginary numbers and abstract
  mathematics were dinner table conversation.

• He built a real computer with leftover parts, an
  old TV and a soldering iron while a student at
  Oxford in 1976
• Did not profit commercially from the development
  of the WEB

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• David Filo and Jerry Yang started Yahoo! while
  students at Stanford University in 1994
• It began as a list of cool WEB sites posted for
  their friends

• David is from Louisiana and majored in computer
  engineering at Tulane University
• Jerry is from San Jose and got his bachelors
  degree at Stanford

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• David Filo
• Chief Yahoo
• 3,12 Milyar pada umur 33 tahun
• Jerry Yang
• Chief Yahoo
• 3,05 Milyar pada umur 30 tahun

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The Chief Yahoo!s Grow Up

• Jerry Yang was born in 1968 in Taiwan
• His father died when he was two, leaving his
  mother with him and a one year old brother
• Jerry began writing Chinese characters at age
  three
• His mother moved to the U.S. when he was five to
  get a college teaching job
• He got straight As all through school

• David Filo was born in 1966 in Moss Bluff,
  Louisiana
• He was the fourth of six children, a bright and
  curious child
• He grew up and went to college in New Orleans
  getting a bachelors in computer science at
  Tulane
• He met Jerry Yang at Stanford where they were
  doctoral students

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• Jeffrey Preston Bezos was born to a teenage
  mother whose marriage to his father lasted less
  than a year
• Early childhood on his grand-fathers ranch in
  New Mexico
• He was a computer whiz in high school and was
  valedictorian of his high school class.

• He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton and
  had a successful career with banks and stock
  hedge funds before starting Amazon.com
• He started the company in his garage not because
  he had to, but because he wanted to be able to
  say he did

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• Michael Dell got a job in a restaurant when he
  was twelve to raise funds for a stamp auction
  business
• In junior high he joined a number sense club
  that did math problems in their head and competed
  in math contests
• He got his first Apple at 15 and promptly took it
  apart, upsetting his parents who thought he had
  ruined it.

• He made 18,500 selling newspaper subscriptions
  in one year in high school
• Defied his parents insistence that he give up
  the computer business and stick to pre-med, he
  took a leave from the University of Texas after
  the freshman year and never returned.

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• Michael Dell
• CEO Dell Computer
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• Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google as a
  research project while Ph.D. candidates at
  Stanford University
• Page was 24 and Brin 23

Larry Page and Sergey Brin

• Page, the son of a computer science professor,
  fell in love with computers at age six. He is an
  honors graduate of the University of Michigan in
  computer engineering
• Brin, a native of Moscow, graduated with honors
  from the University of Maryland in math and
  computer science
• They disdain financial values and espouse slogans
  such as Making the World a Better Place and Do
  No Evil

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