[HN Gopher] The father-son struggle that helped ensure IBM's suc... ___________________________________________________________________ The father-son struggle that helped ensure IBM's success Author : benbreen Score : 21 points Date : 2023-11-09 02:54 UTC (20 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com) | niccl wrote: | no paywall | https://web.archive.org/web/20231026105511/https://www.nytim... | CamperBob2 wrote: | Love the lead photo. That is just Kubrick AF. | gumby wrote: | The autobiography of Watson Jnr that Tim Wu mentions, "Father, | Son and Company" really is an excellent read. I enjoyed it a lot | and I've never liked IBM's hardware. It of course has a lot to | say about the 360 (and how revolutionary it was), but also about | management. | | https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/03/books/growing-up-at-big-b... | TMWNN wrote: | Agreed on the autobiography's excellence. Among other things, | Watson Jr. sadly recounts how he and his father drove to | colleges around the Northeast US looking for one that would | accept the son and his mediocre academic record (Watson was | likely dyslexic, or had some other learning disability); Brown | is the one that reluctantly does so. | | Wartime service as a pilot was the first time Watson Jr. found | himself good at anything, and he expected to stay flying until | he was pulled back to IBM. He had built contacts in Russia | during the war, and used that experience when serving as the US | ambassador to the Soviet Union after IBM. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-11-09 23:00 UTC)