Business F1 Top 20 Petrolheads: Jon Shirley, The Luckiest Manager

  • 27 April 2024
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Jon Shirley could have been an ordinary accountant that no one would have ever heard of, if he had not joined Microsoft in 1983 at the age of 45 to give organizational structure to a company run by three guys in their early 20s. The three boys Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Steve Ballmer were running the startup they had started seven years earlier in college in a typically chaotic way and made it grow amazingly.

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