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Peter Andrews and Fiona Wood

Chapter Chapter 5 in Überpreneurs, 2014, pp 79-101 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract WHEN STEVE BALLMER, NOW CEO of Microsoft, told his parents in 1980 that he was planning to drop out of his prestigious MBA program to join a tiny company creating software for personal computers, his mother asked: “Why would a person want a computer?”

Keywords: Venture Capital; Digital Equipment Corporation; Venture Capital Fund; Melinda Gate Foundation; Internet Search Engine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137376152_5

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