The Wizard of Web Retailing: Jeff Bezos 电子商务教父杰夫贝佐斯 Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1995 as an online bookstore. Due to customer demand the company later expanded and added other products to its inventories, including videos, D...
He stayed at William Motris for over five years and would happily have stayed longer, but fate intervened when his mentor was fired. That presented an opportunity to start his own operation, Creative Artists Agency. Founded in 1975 with four colleagu...
Luck and a Winning Attitude 运气和成功的态度 Meyer's messenger job included chauffeuring Paul Kohner, a successful agent who represented stars like John Huston, Billy Wilder, Charles Bronson and Lana Turner. Meyer kept his eyes on the road--a...
Meyer knew he was up against considerable odds, but he finally had a goal: to become an agent and live the sort of lifestyle described in The Flesh Peddlers. He says he must have been 179 interviewed at all of the major talent agencies. Everyone said...
Meyer's story sounds like the plot of one of his motion pictures. The son of German immigrants, he grew up in a modest home where there was little disposable income. It was a big deal to go to a restaurant. At 15, he quit high school and spent his ti...
Ron Meyer: The President of Universal Studios 坚韧、品质、天赋环球影城总裁罗恩梅耶尔 Gumption and Guts 进取心和勇气 Ron Meyer was 14 when a friend gave him his first tattoo, a crude design done with ink and a needle. Like man...
In addition to its perks and meritocratic culture, Google is in tune with the increasing importance people place on work-life balance. The company provides an on-site doctor and dentist at headquarters and even allows employees to bring their dogs to...
Over the next few months, Google's fortunes only continued to escalate. The nature of the web meant that search engines themselves, while widely used , were tough to make profitable. Google was performing about 150 million searches a day (or 1, 800 p...
In March of 2001, Schmidt surprised many when he became board chair of Google, Inc., the California-'based Internet search engine. I just liked the company, Schmidt recalled. It's as simple as that. Five months later, he was made Google's new CEO. Go...
Sun quickly emerged as an industry leader. Schmidt began there as a software manager, and in 1991, he was named head of Sun Technology Enterprises, an arm of the company charged with exploring future directions in new technologies. He returned to Sun...
