Current：Home > FinanceHow IBM's gamble ushered in the computer age -Ascend Wealth Education
How IBM's gamble ushered in the computer age
View
Date：2025-04-17 09:33:41
In the book of corporate folklore, former IBM CEO Thomas Watson Jr. deserves a special spot. Specifically, the massive gamble he took in 1964 to introduce the System/360, which had the potential to undermine his own company's entire business model. Today on the show, an interview with author Marc Wortman on what Watson Jr.'s decision reveals about the fragile relationship between innovation and destruction.
Marc Wortman is co-author of the new book The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived: Tom Watson, Jr., and the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age.
For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.
Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.
veryGood！ (92)
Related
- NHL in ASL returns, delivering American Sign Language analysis for Deaf community at Winter Classic
- Separated by duty but united by bond, a pair of Marines and their K-9s are reunited for the first time in years
- Taylor Lautner's Wife Tay Lautner Shares Breast Cancer Scare
- Pennsylvania Senate passes bill encouraging school districts to ban students’ phone use during day
- What to know about Tuesday’s US House primaries to replace Matt Gaetz and Mike Waltz
- Defense for Bob Menendez rests without New Jersey senator testifying
- Two women dead, 3 children critically injured in early morning July Fourth Chicago shooting
- Alec Baldwin's Rust denied New Mexico tax incentives ahead of actor's involuntary manslaughter trial
- Nearly half of US teens are online ‘constantly,’ Pew report finds
- FDA bans ingredient found in some citrus-flavored sodas
Ranking
- Why members of two of EPA's influential science advisory committees were let go
- Separated by duty but united by bond, a pair of Marines and their K-9s are reunited for the first time in years
- Rapper Waka Flocka Flame tells Biden voters to 'Get out' at Utah club performance: Reports
- Minnesota prosecutor provides most detailed account yet of shooting deaths of 3 first responders
- Opinion: Gianni Infantino, FIFA sell souls and 2034 World Cup for Saudi Arabia's billions
- Bob Menendez's defense rests without New Jersey senator testifying in bribery trial
- Tesla stock climbs as Q2 vehicle deliveries beat expectations for first time in year
- Maryland OKs $50.3M contract for removal of bridge collapse debris
Recommendation
Tarte Shape Tape Concealer Sells Once Every 4 Seconds: Get 50% Off Before It's Gone
2 women in Chicago and Cleveland police officer are among those killed in July Fourth shootings
2-year-old found dead inside hot car in Georgia, but police say the child wasn't left there
Jane Fonda says being 'white and famous' provided her special treatment during 2019 arrest
Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow owns a $3 million Batmobile Tumbler
Judge temporarily blocks Biden administration’s restoration of transgender health protections
Are Lana Del Rey and Quavo dating? They play lovers in new 'Tough' music video
Police fatally shoot suspect allegedly holding hostages at South Dakota gas station