Lessons from the TOPLessons from the TOP

•Jack Welch (General Electric)Jack Welch (General Electric)

• Bill Gates (Microsoft)Bill Gates (Microsoft)

• Andy Grove (Intel)Andy Grove (Intel)

• Lou Gerstner (IBM)Lou Gerstner (IBM)

• Michael Dell (Dell Computer)Michael Dell (Dell Computer)

• Mike Armstrong (AT&T)Mike Armstrong (AT&T)

• John Chambers (Cisco System)John Chambers (Cisco System)

• Fred Smith (Federal Express)Fred Smith (Federal Express)

• Steve Case (America Online)Steve Case (America Online)

• Elizabeth Cole (American Red Elizabeth Cole (American Red Cross)Cross)

• Bob Eaton (DaimlerChrysler)Bob Eaton (DaimlerChrysler)

• Michael Eisner (Walt Disney)Michael Eisner (Walt Disney)

• Ray Gilmartin (Merck)Ray Gilmartin (Merck)

• Hank Greenberg (AIG)Hank Greenberg (AIG)

• Sandy Weill (Citigroup)Sandy Weill (Citigroup)

• Alex Trotman (Ford Motor Alex Trotman (Ford Motor Company)Company)

• Bill Steere (Pfizer)Bill Steere (Pfizer)

• Howard Schultz (Starbucks)Howard Schultz (Starbucks)

• Ralph Larsen (johnson&Johnson)Ralph Larsen (johnson&Johnson)

• Walter Shipley (Chase Manhattan)Walter Shipley (Chase Manhattan)

• and many othersand many others

• Andrew Carnegie’s father’s 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

Philanthropist

• 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.

Hi-Tech EntrepreneursHi-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.

Nolan Bushnell

Video Game Entrepreneur

Nickname: King Pong

• 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

Bill GatesBill Gates “was “was impatient with those impatient with those not as quick as he was, not as quick as he was, teachers included.”teachers included.”

He did better when his He did better when his parents sent him to an parents sent him to an elite private schoolelite private school

Started a small Started a small business while in high business while in high schoolschool

He dropped out of He dropped out of college to go into the college to go into the software businesssoftware business

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...

• Steve Jobs was adopted, a loner and nonconformist in school, dropped out of Reed College

• Experimented with Indian mysticism, hallucinogenic drugs, communes, vegetarianism, fasting

• “I’m just a guy who should have been a semi-talented poet on the Left Bank. I got sidetracked here.”

• 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

• 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

• 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 bachelor’s degree at Stanford

David FiloDavid Filo

Chief YahooChief Yahoo

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Jerry YangJerry Yang

Chief YahooChief Yahoo

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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 A’s 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 bachelor’s in computer science at Tulane

• He met Jerry Yang at Stanford where they were doctoral students

• Jeffrey Preston Bezos was born to a teenage mother whose marriage to his father lasted less than a year

• Early childhood on his grand-father’s 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

• 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.

• Michael Dell• CEO Dell Computer• $ 21,49 Milyar pada umur 34 tahun

Larry Page and Sergey Brin

• Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google as a research project while Ph.D. candidates at Stanford University

• Page was 24 and Brin 23

• 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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