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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     McElvenny, Ralph Watson, author.     Subjects     Watson, Thomas J., 1914-1993.     International Business Machines Corporation -- History.     Businessmen -- United States -- Biography.     Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      McElvenny, Ralph Watson, author.       by title:      The greatest capital...         MARC Display

The greatest capitalist who ever lived : Tom Watson Jr. and the epic story of how IBM created the digital age / Ralph Watson McElvenny and Marc Wortman. by McElvenny, Ralph Watson, author. New York : PublicAffairs, 2023. Subjects Watson, Thomas J., 1914-1993.   International Business Machines Corporation -- History.   Businessmen -- United States -- Biography.   Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography. ISBN:  9781541768529 (hardcover) : 1541768523 (hardcover) Description:  viii, 567 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Thomas Watson Jr. drove IBM to undertake the biggest gamble in business history with a revolution no other company of the age could dare--the creation in the 1960s of the IBM System/360, the world's first fully integrated and compatible mainframe computer that laid the foundation for the information technology future. Its success made IBM the most valuable company in America. Fortune magazine touted him as "the greatest capitalist who ever lived." Time named him one of the "One Hundred People of the Century." Behind closed doors, Watson was a multifaceted, complicated man. As a young man, he was a failed student and playboy, an unlikely candidate for corporate titan. He pulled his life together as a courageous World War II pilot and took over IBM after his father's death. He suffered from anxiety and depression so overwhelming that he spent days prostrate and locked in a bathroom at home while IBM faced crisis after crisis. And he carried out a family-shattering battle over the future of IBM with his brother Dick, who expected to follow him as CEO. But despite his many demons, he laid the foundation for what eventually became the global information technology industry, which dominates today's world. His story, and the industry he created, is equal to, if not more important than that of Rockefeller and Standard Oil, Vanderbilt and the railroads, and Morgan in finance"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 338.761 Watson Mc Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 338.761 Watson Mc Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 338.761 Watson Mc Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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