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Entrepreneurs Who Changed History
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Entrepreneurs Who Changed History

by DK
September 2020
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
9h 53m
English
DK Publishing
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Between 1960 and 1995, advances in telecommunications and computing gathered pace, creating new modes of entertainment and consumption and new opportunities for entrepreneurs. By the 1990s, mobile telephone technology and the internet had become vital parts of the economy.

Eric Schmidt

(b. 1955)

US software engineer Eric Schmidt was born in Virginia and gained a PhD in computer science from the University of California in 1982. He joined the IT company Sun Microsystems, becoming chief technology officer. In 1997, he was named CEO of the computer software company Novell. Schmidt was recruited by Google in 2001 as CEO and oversaw its fast development into one of the dominant tech companies in ...

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