#87 Thomas Watson (IBM)

Thomas Watson began his life at age forty. After Dayton, Ohio nearly ruined him. In Dayton, Watson experienced fantastic success. And near destruction. All of it had to happen for IBM to exist at all.

and for Watson to take his place among history's great business figures. Alright, so that's an excerpt from the book that I read this week and the one I'm gonna talk to you about today. Which is the Maverick and his machine. Thomas Watson Senior and The Making of IBM and it was written by Kevin Manny. Um, before I jump into the book, let me just tell you where I found this book. I was actually listening to um

Mark and Dreeson talk. He's the one that invented uh the Nets the Mosaic browser which turned it to the company Netscape. But he's also rather well known because he's the co founder of the venture capital firm A sixteen Z and he was talking and I uh was taking notes on some of the stuff he was saying. And let me just read this to you. He says the entrepreneurs of the past were extreme characters.

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