Screen LibraryLeaving Microsoft to change the world：an entrepreneur's odyssey to educate the world's children
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| Published: |
Collins,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2006. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | [1st international ed.] |
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| Carrier Form: | vi, 266 p.: ill. ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
006117906X 9780061179068 |
| Index Number: | G53 |
| CLC: |
G53 G51 |
| Call Number: | G51/W876 |
| Contents: |
Includes index. Discovering Nepal; leaving Microsoft -- "Perhaps, Sir, you will someday come back with books" -- An idea burns by candlelight -- You need to get home soon! -- Woody and John's excellent adventure -- Debating a radical change -- Lonely in a city of 12 million strangers -- Gates in China -- Walking away -- Starting over -- The start-up years: an object in motion remains in motion -- Making the ask - Expansion beyond Nepal -- A postcard from Nepal -- What every entrepreneur needs: a strong second-in-command -- September 11 -- Building "the Microsoft of nonprofits" -- Building the network -- Your life is a mess -- Hitting our stride -- Putting girls in their place-school! -- "Count me in, Don" -- The students of Cambodia - The network goes into overdrive -- Democracy in action in India -- The Tsunami -- The millionth book -- The next chapter of my adult life. |