Michael Moritz
Auteur de Le jeu de la pomme : La grande aventure d'Apple Computer
A propos de l'auteur
Sir Michael Moritz was born in Cardiff, studied Modern History at Oxford and began his career as a journalist at Time magazine in the US in the late 1970s. It was during this period that he met the young Steve Jobs and began work on the first book about Apple, The Little Kingdom: the Private Story afficher plus of Apple Computer, which was published in 1984 and has become an industry classic. Moritz co-wrote a second business book, Going for Broke: The Chrysler Story, before changing career in 1986 and joining Sequoia Capital, based in the heart of Silicon Valley, California. In 2009, almost thirty years after it was first published, Moritz revised and expanded his book on Apple in The Return to the Little Kingdom. In 2012 he became chairman of Sequoia Capital. In 2013 he was appointed KBE in the Queen¿s Birthday Honours list for his services to promoting British economy and his family¿s philanthropic work. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Å’uvres de Michael Moritz
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1954
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
USA - Lieu de naissance
- Cardiff, Wales, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- San Francisco, California, USA
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Going for Broke: The Chrysler Story par Michael Moritz
This book came out in 1981, though many of the issues it discusses resonate even today, in 2017. There is an extended discussion in chapter 7 of the effect of environmental regulations, and how politically-driven decisions based on sketchy science had negative impacts on the car companies. Much of the last part of the book deals with the political wrangling surrounding the 1979-1980 bailout by the federal government, which would have echoes in the 2009 bailout of General Motors. So, in essence, while this is a historical document, much of what is related still has relevance. A good read.… (plus d'informations)
Die bulgarische Mafia, der israelische Geheimdienst Mossad, ein Heilpraktiker der das Wetter machen kann und deshalb das erste von mehreren Mordopfern abgibt. All das passiert am Kaiserstuhl, in Freiburg und vor allem in Bötzingen. Nicht immer schlüssig, aber flott erzählt mit treffenden Erkenntissen zur Kaiserstühler Mentalität.
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Statistiques
- Å’uvres
- 12
- Membres
- 207
- Popularité
- #106,920
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 29
- Langues
- 7