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Traces the life and career of the influential businessman who founded EDS, explains why he sold his company to General Motors and started a rival firm, and discusses EDS's lawsuit against him.

Using previously unreleased archives, the author narrates the compelling life of Cornelius Vanderbilt: willful progenitor of modern American business. Vanderbilt made his initial fortune in the transportation industry by building ferry and cargo routes for sailing vessels. Then he moved into steamboats and railroads. With the New York Central Railroad, Vanderbilt established the nation's first major integrated rail system, linking New York with Boston,...

The story of how three software engineers at Microsoft developed DirectX and Chromeffects.

Presents a behind-the-scenes look at the Robertson family, documenting the teenage romance and marriage of Willie and Korie Robertson, their success as a multi-million dollar hunting equipment business, and their rise to stardom on reality television.

"My work is to create companies and build them," writes Sam Wyly in this memoir, which reveals how he established and expanded companies on the leading edge of advancements in technology, energy, retail, and investments over the last forty-five years. A natural storyteller, Wyly relates the process, relationships, struggles, and strategies that have made him one of the 1,000 wealthiest people in the world. Part autobiography and part inspirational...

This volume chronicles the life of Bill Gates, using quotes compiled from speeches, articles, essays, newscasts and interviews. It discloses what he says on topics including financing a start-up, running a conglomerate, developing technology, raising a family, and growing his business.

The story of one of America's most creative businessmen as well as an inside look at one of our most historically significant families.

The bittersweet story of an American family and its patriarch, a short-order cook named Ben Eisenstadt who, in the years after World War II, invented the sugar packet and Sweet'N Low, converting his Brooklyn cafeteria into a factory and amassing the great fortune that would destroy his family. A strange comic farce of machinations and double dealings, it is also the story of immigrants, sugar, saccharine, obesity, and the health and diet craze, played...

A struggle is taking place--not just among corporate titans, but among entire industries. At stake is the communications industry. The contestants are Hollywood studios, television networks, and cable, telephone, computer, publishing, and consumer-electronics companies. The author takes the reader behind the scenes at such companies as Disney, Viacom, Microsoft, Time Warner, and Telecommunications, Inc. He chronicles the vanities and visions of such...