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From: YTHRROUS@MTUS5.BITNET (Roger Rouse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Computer Company Trivia
Message-ID: <90146.184437YTHRROUS@MTUS5.BITNET>
Date: 26 May 90 23:44:36 GMT
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Here's some interesting information about some of the companies and
executives out there:

Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore, is listed in the FORBES 400
as having a NET WORTH of $370,000,000.  This is, as is usual in
FORBES estimates, a conservative figure.  His reputation was
hurt in a major financial scandal (something in Canada).  Irving
Gould, investor, saved him from bankruptcy.  In 1984, Tramiel
got out of Commodore as a result of a dispute with Gould.  He then
bought up Atari.

John Sculley, CEO of Apple Computer, made $2,251,000 last year,
but only owns three tenths of one percent of the company.  IBM's
CEO John Akers made $1,886,000.  He owns less than one one hundreth
of one percent of the company.  Commodore and Atari were not listed
in the article I got this from.  (Forbes, May 28, 1990)

If anyone knows how much Commodores CEO (O' captain, my Captain...?)
makes, let me know.


- Roger Rouse

"Sometimes you have to take two steps backward
in order to take one step forward."

                               -- Unknown  (Commodore??)