Since 1983 left Microsoft due to illness, Allen has been defined by the media as "a billionaire carelessly", "an investor who failed at will" and "the worst manager", but paul allen will never agree with this evaluation. What he wants to tell people is that he is very happy to enjoy his current success, which is a unique successful investment measured by different success criteria.
Steve jobs
Steve Jobs was born in 1955. 1972 After graduating from high school, I only studied in a Polish university for one semester. 1974 Jobs got a job designing computer games in a company. Two years later, Jobs and Wozniak, then 2 1, then 26, set up Apple Computer Company in Jobs' garage. The Apple II they developed has 4K memory, and users use their TV sets as monitors, which is the first personal computer on the market.
1980165438+10, Apple shares rose to $22 per share, and Jobs and Wozniak became millionaires overnight. 1986 Jobs acquired digital animation company Pixar. This company has now become the producer of the best-selling animated films Toy Story and Bug Crisis, which is the second peak of Jobs' career.
1September 1997, Jobs returned to the company as CEO. He carried out a drastic reorganization of the company and took a series of measures to reduce the price and promote new products for dying Apple. Finally, in the fourth quarter of 1998, it created a profit of109 million dollars, which made "Apple" popular again.
Now Apple's business goal is to become the "Sony" of the computer industry. Jobs said that technology is not the most difficult, but how to determine products and target consumers.
Always listening to the needs of consumers and carrying out the original intention of "building a bridge between ordinary people and precision computers" with great enthusiasm is Jobs' most powerful weapon. Whether at Apple or Pixar, Jobs worked tirelessly to realize his dream: using computers as a tool to help bridge the gap between technology and art.
3 Mickey Kapoor
Date of birth 195 1 year 1 1 month 1 day.
Country and birthplace Brooklyn, new york, USA
Education: 197 1 year, Bachelor of Psychology from Yale University: 1978, Master of Psychology from Bacon University: 1980, Master of Si Long School of Management from MIT: 1999 -200 1 year.
He began to teach him computer applications at $5 an hour. Before long, he swaggered himself as an "independent computer consultant".
He and another partner developed VisiPlot. VisiPlot was very popular, and its sales soon reached more than $654.38 million per month. In less than a year, Kapoor and his partners earned120,000 dollars. Kapoor created the first success of his business career. Kapoor finally realized that there is only one way to satisfy himself: start his own company and be his own boss.
1983, Lotus Development Company released its first product-Lotus1-2-3. This is the first product in the history of software to provide users with shielding help content and attach a guide to the disk. They also set up a customer service department, which is unheard of in 1983. Results The actual income in the first year reached $53 million for the first time, and it was successfully listed. In the second year, it soared to $6543.8+56 billion. In the third year, it reached $258 million. 1995, Lotus was sold to IBM for $3.2 billion.
Four years later, Kapoor retired from his official position, left the business world and found a job as a visiting professor at MIT. But after teaching for less than a year, he relapsed and plunged into the business world again. This time, Kapoor founded On Technology Company, and he served as president and CEO for three years. But it was not as successful as people expected.
1990, Kapoor and the late famous lyric poet Bellow founded the Electronic Frontier Fund (EFF).
1994 Join the American Infrastructure Advisory Committee. Call him the mentor of the information superhighway. EFF's story is getting more and more complicated. His headquarters also moved from Cambridge to Washington. The active field is getting bigger and bigger. Kapoor is no longer an "opposition party" standing on the opposite side of the government and defending hackers, but is increasingly becoming a political player in Washington.
Kapoor is a folk hero. Gates is a hero in the mainstream society.
4 robert morris
Morris first came into contact with the computer at home. Morris's father once brought back an original mysterious cipher machine from NSA, which became the talk of the family and aroused his strong interest. He wrote high-quality computer programs at the age of 12. At the age of 18, he had rich programmer experience in the most prestigious Bell Labs and Harvard University.
1in the winter of 988, Morris, who was studying at Cornell University, sent a computer virus called "worm" to the largest computer network in the United States.
1 On May 5, 990, the new york District Court, according to the virus program designed by robert morris, caused major accidents, including the computer shutdown of NASA, military bases and universities, and sentenced Morris to a three-year probation, a fine of $110,000, and volunteered to serve the new district for 400 hours. The Morris incident shocked American society and even the whole world. What is more far-reaching than the incident is that hackers are really hacked, hacker ethics has lost its constraints, and hacker traditions have begun to be interrupted. The public's impression of hackers will never be restored. In addition, computer viruses have since become the mainstream.
5 richard stallman
Major achievements: Senior hacker. 197 1 year, storman found a job in the artificial intelligence laboratory of MIT on the street. He was an undergraduate at Harvard University at that time. Later, Storman founded the Free Software Fund, which broke the concept that software is private property.
First contact with computer: 1969 at IBM new york Science Center, 16 years old.
Own unique hacking tool: In the 1980s, Stallman continued to work in one of the offices without receiving the salary from MIT. There he created a new operating system GNU——GNU is the abbreviation of "GNU's Not Unix".
Little-known fact: He won the MacArthur Foundation's $240,000 genius award.
Under his theory, users copying software from each other is not only "piracy", but also embodies the virtue of mutual assistance. For Stallman, freedom is fundamental. Users can freely enjoy the software achievements and copy and modify the code at will.