The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived: Tom Watson Jr. and the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age (McElvenny Ralph Watson)(Pevná vazba)

A riveting, first-ever, sweeping biography of Thomas Watson Jr, more important to the history and development of the modern world than Vanderbilt, Morgan, Rockefeller, and Carnegie, the story of a man who risked everything, personally and professionally to launch the computer age that created the world we live in today. A book will bring his importance and significance to a broad audience Thomas Watson Jr. drove IBM to undertake the biggest gamble in business history with a revolution no other company of the age could dare- the creation in the 1960s of the IBM System/360, the world's first fully integrated and compatible mainframe computer that laid the foundation for the information technology future. Its success made IBM the most valuable company in America. Fortune magazine touted him as "the greatest capitalist who ever lived." Time named him one of the "One Hundred
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