H. Ross Perot, tech billionaire and populist politician, dies at age 89 by chrishelman
H. Ross Perot died at home in Dallas today. He was 89, and had been in declining health for several years. Americans know Perot best for his squeaky prime-time TV talks during his two presidential runs in 1992 and 1996, when as the populist Reform party candidate he railed against both big deficits and free trade, warning of the “” of U.S. jobs moving to Mexico. Perot’s grandest legacy, however, was in his instrumental role in evolving the information technology industry.
Not this guy. He quit IBM, and in 1962, with a check from his wife for $1,000, Perot founded Electronic Data Systems. “That’s all the money I ever put into my first company. We bootstrapped it from there,” he toldin 2013. He later displayed that check prominently in his office. Perot set out to pursue his rejected strategy for IBM.
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