| We interviewed the inventor of PowerPoint for our blog, and he gave a fascinating inside story of how he almost sold to Apple before eventually sealing a deal with Microsoft: https://blog.zamzar.com/2016/06/10/deal-of-the-century-how-m... We also recently interviewed the creator of Microsoft Word who talked about working with Bill Gates in the 1980s: https://blog.zamzar.com/2020/03/20/an-interview-with-richard... For books I’d massively recommend: - The Cuckoo’s Egg, a first-person account of the hunt for a computer hacker who broke into a computer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory[1] - Founders at Work, for early Silicon Valley startup stories[2] - The Nudist on the Late Shift by Po Bronson, for similarly wacky late ‘90s/early 2000’s startup stories[3] [1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg [2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98233.Founders_at_Work [3] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119751.The_Nudist_on_the... |
[0] https://amzn.to/2wPhmtU