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Founders Notes: Thomas Watson Sr

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Thomas Watson (IBM) David Senra All right. So that's an excerpt from the book that I read this week, and the one I'm going to talk to you about today, which is The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM and it was written by Kevin Maney. Before I jump into the book, let me just tell you where I found this book. I was actually listening to Marc Andreessen talk. He's the one that invented the Mosaic browser, which turned into the company Netscape. But he's also rather well known because he's the co-founder of the venture capital firm a16z, and he was talking, and I 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. I'm thinking of Thomas Watson, Sr. If you want to know what it is like to work for someone who is harsh, read a book on Thomas Watson, Sr. He makes all of today's entrepreneurs look like cream puffs." So as soon as I heard him say that, I just went ahead and ordered the book. He also blurbed for the book, too. But Marc like every single other founder that I've studied, founders that came before him -- in fact, he said something that I think is re

Thomas Watson (IBM) David Senra All right. So that's an excerpt from the book that I read this week, and the one I'm going to talk to you about today, which is The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM and it was written by Kevin Maney. Before I jump into the book, let me just tell you where I found this book. I was actually listening to Marc Andreessen talk. He's the one that invented the Mosaic browser, which turned into the company Netscape. But he's also rather well known because he's the co-founder of the venture capital firm a16z, and he was talking, and I…

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