Download Forbes Greatest Technology Stories: Inspiring Tales of Entrepreneurs and Inventors AudioBook Free
This is actually the fascinating story of the making of the high-tech business revolution and the birth of the Digital Age. Journalist Jeffrey Young chronicles six decades of unbridled know-how, taking you inside today's business empires and introducing you to the dreamers, the schemers, the entrepreneurs, and the inventors who built them, including:
- Millionaire playboy turned visionary CEO Thomas Watson, Jr.: How he helped pioneer the business enterprise computing industry in the early 1950s and made IBM its undisputed master for another three decades.
- Fast-talking hippie-entrepreneur Steve Jobs and engineering genius Steve Wozniak: That they went from penniless "wireheads" to high-tech multimillionaires overnight.
- Bill Gates and Microsoft: whose talent for turning other people's creative innovations into his own marketplace success.
- Webs, Networks, and the Internet: How a handful of visionaries turned a Cold War communications system in to the global phenomenon called the Internet.
