In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations With the Visionaries of the Digital World - Hardcover

Jager, Rama Dev; Ortiz, Rafael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070329346 ISBN 13: 9780070329348

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1997

Synopsis

Leaders in the computer world survey their past, present, and future

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Review:

Rama Dev Jager and Rafael Ortiz offer readers an insider's view into the history and people behind today's greatest digital successes. In a series of probing interviews, Microsoft's Bill Gates, America Online's Steve Case, Dell Computer's Michael Dell, and 13 others share their stories of how it all happened. They share their recollections of the good decisions and bad, the misfortunes and lucky breaks, but most of all, the people and attitudes that turned the ideas of these digital age giants into the most influential companies in the world of computing.

From the Back Cover:

Wisdom and advice from the legends of cyberspace Pull up a chair and listen in on the most honest and unrestrained interviews ever published of the titans of the digital world. HereOs tough, straight, sometimes controversial, sometimes profound but always instructive talk about how they did it...what they think...and where itOs all going. Bill Gates (Microsoft)--"If youOve met people who have said that Microsoft wonOt sell operating systems in the future, if you believe them, you should short Microsoft stock. ThereOs an opportunity to make about $55 billion out there and you ought to put that on the front of the book." Steve Jobs (Apple, NeXT, Pixar)--"A small team of A players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players." T. J. Rodgers (Cypress Semiconductor)--"Electrons donOt understand beliefs. They only understand reality and the laws of physics, and therefore people in the electron-moving business inevitably get screwed if they deal from a belief point of view." Gordon Eubanks (Symantec)--"Customers are smartNstart with that." Sandy Kurtzig (ASK)--"IOm concerned that a lot of todayOs managers havenOt managed through the down times....They donOt know if they have the toughness. TheyOve never had to face it." Ken Olsen (Digital Equipment Corporation)--"First work for somebody else and learn how to be a team member....Then go and learn to be a leader." Plus...Steve Case (America Online). Scott Cook (Intuit). John Warnock and Charles Geschke (Adobe Systems). Michael Dell (Dell Computer). Charles Wang (Computer Associates). Andy Grove (Intel). Trip Hawkins (Electronic Arts/3DO). Ed McCracken (Silicon Graphics). Bill Hewlett (Hewlett-Packard).

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0070329346
• ISBN 13: 9780070329348
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232