About the Authors

Steve Hamm has been a journalist for 30 years. Before joining IBM’s corporate communications department as a writer and videographer, he was a senior writer at BusinessWeek and spent two decades covering the computer industry, first in Silicon Valley and then in New York. He is the author of Bangalore Tiger and The Race for Perfect. He lives in Pelham, New York, with his wife and son.

Kevin Maney is the author of Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don’t, The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson Sr. and the Making of IBM and Megamedia Shakeout. He was a reporter, editor and columnist at USA Today for 22 years and a contributing editor at Condé Nast Portfolio. He has been a contributor to Fortune and Wired magazines, ...

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