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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 52 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Language
English
Description
Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft, the worlds largest personal computer software company. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the computer programming language, BASIC, for the firt microcomputer. Guided by a belief that the computer will be a common tool in the home and office, Gates left Harvard to bdevote his energies to Microsoft, the company he had begun in 1975 with his childhhod friend Paul Allen....
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 52 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Language
English
Description
At only 27 years, Mark Zuckerberg is worth about 30 billion. Launched in his dorm eight years ago, today Facebook has over 850 million followers! An incredible success story! If everyone knows Facebook, few people know about his creators real life. From his childhood in an upscale suburb of New York until the day the site was created at Harvard, and his explosion in the Silicon Valley Close, employees, investors and biographers reveal the true face...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 52 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Language
English
Description
An entrepreneur at heart from the Stanford faculty benches, Knight stumbled upon the very first pairs of sneakers in Japan. Those cheap and resistant shoes were manufactured by a certain Mr Onistuka to whom Knight purchased a few samples that he not only sold back in the USA but also duplicated. He invented then the sportswear: from the brand, Nike inspired by the Greek goddess, to the logo, designed by an art student for only 35 dollars, and the...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 52 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Language
English
Description
The first Virgin company was a small mail-order record retailer that quickly grew until the first record shop was opened on Oxford Street, London. Branson then opened a recording studio with only one contracted recording artist, Mike Oldfield, before signing a number of household names such as the Sex Pitsols and the Rolling Stones. With over 200 companies, Virgin Group has expanded into leisure, travel, tourism, mobile, broadband TV, radio, music...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 52 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Language
English
Description
Steve Jobs changed our lives. By launching the iPod in 2001, he revolutionized our way of listening to music. Apples founder proved then once again that hes a genius at the edge of technology and innovation, 25 years after having commercialized the first home computers. Yet, before becoming a hero, Steve Jobs was the only one to believe in its success. He fought hard against serious competitors such as IBM but mostly against his famous rival, Bill...
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 52 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color with black & white sequences.
Language
English
Description
Ingvar Kamprad was born in 1926 in småland, a Swedish deprived region. A small shopkeeper in the 50s, he quickly understands the world is changing: the industry is imposing its economic model everywhere. An economic model he will apply on furniture. With Ikea, furniture is manufactured in factories, practical, cheap and easy to transport. Besides, this is the company motto: FSE for Functional, Shape and easy to produce. Kamprad brings this concept...
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