Bill Gates was a teenage computer whiz when he dropped out of Harvard to start his own company, Microsoft. Through a brilliant combination of technical prowess and business insight, Gates made Microsoft the indispensable supplier of operating systems and office software to computer users around the world. If you use a computer to write a letter, compose an e-mail or visit a web site, chances are you're using Microsoft software. In this audio podcast, Mr. Gates shares his vision of how computers will change the way we do business.

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Bill Gates - Chairman of Microsoft corp

Sir Richard Branson is the Founder and Chairman of the Virgin Group of Companies, a global publishing, aviation and entertainment conglomerate of over 400 companies based in London, England. He started his empire and $4 billion personal fortune from scratch when he was 15 years old. Branson built his business during one of Britain's darkest economic hours.

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Richard Branson - Founder of Virgin Group

The Co-Founder and CEO of Apple Computers and the Pixar animation studio, Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011) ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. At age 20, Jobs founded Apple in his parents' garage with $1,300 he raised by selling his old Volkswagen and his parents' calculator. Today, Apple leads the industry in innovation with its award-winning desktop and notebook computers, and with leading consumer and professional software applications.Apple led the digital music revolution with its iPod portable music players and iTunes online music store. It set the pace for the smart phone sector with the innovative iPhone, and dominates the tablet computer market with its wildly popular iPad. 

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Steve Jobs - Co-Founder of Apple Inc

The entrepreneur and philanthropist Thomas S. Monaghan achieved enormous success as the Founder, Chairman and President of the Domino's Pizza chain, but he did not have an easy start in life. His father died when he was only four. His mother was unable to care for him alone, and Tom Monaghan spent ages six to 12 in a Catholic orphanage in Jackson, Michigan. Monaghan has credited the nuns of the orphanage for instilling in him the powerful faith that has animated his life and philanthropy. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, Monaghan was a student at the University of Michigan when he borrowed $500 to buy a small pizzeria in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Soon, he expanded the business to more locations, focusing his attention on delivery to college campuses. He invented a new, insulated pizza box that kept the pizzas warmer longer, and could be stacked without crushing the pizzas inside, allowing more deliveries per trip. By the 1980s, Domino's was the world's largest pizza delivery company and the second largest pizza chain in the country, with three new franchises opening almost every day. The success of Domino's enabled Thomas Monaghan to fulfill a childhood dream; he bought the Detroit Tigers baseball team in 1983, and saw them win the World Series the following season. At first, Monaghan used his riches to support a lavish lifestyle, but in the 1990s he began to divest himself of his personal possessions and devote more of his resources to Catholic charities, education and pro-life activism. Monaghan sold the Detroit Tigers in 1992, and in 1998, sold his controlling interest in Domino's Pizza to Boston-based Bain Capital, for a reported $1 billion. Monaghan founded the Ave Maria Foundation to fund Catholic education throughout the Americas; its projects include the Ave Maria Law School in Florida, and the Spiritus Sanctus Academies for elementary education in Central and South America. Among many other projects, he has paid for the building of a new cathedral in Managua, Nicaragua, to replace the old church, destroyed in an earthquake. Tom Monaghan addressed the Academy of Achievement at its 1984 Summit in Minneapolis, Minnesota, shortly after his acquisition of the Detroit Tigers. In this audio podcast, Monaghan reflects on his experience building Domino's Pizza, and how he succeeded in business by making every possible mistake, and learning from his mistakes.

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Thomas Monaghan - Founder of Domino's Pizza

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