Title
Leslie, Mark oral history
Catalog Number
102738311
Type
Moving image
Description
Mark Leslie has had a spectacular career moving from systems engineering at IBM in the 1960’s, through sales management and eventually becoming a highly successful CEO of a near startup which grew to be a billion dollar, Fortune 1000 company. He now teaches courses on entrepreneurship, ethics, and sales organizations at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and works in venture capital.
In this oral history, Mark maps out the steps in his career from IBM to Scientific Data Systems, and Data General and how he decided to make each of those transitions. After leaving Data General, he moved to corporate management, leading Synapse, Rugged Digital Systems and eventually Veritas. The oral history is also a great tutorial on lessons learned during his career. The insights offered in sales and corporate management, the dynamics of the high technology market and the mindset necessary to be successful make this a “must-read” for new and experienced entrepreneurs and corporate executives.
Date
2017-07-13
Participants
Brock, David C., Interviewer
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Hancock, Marguerite Gong, Interviewer
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Leslie, Mark, Interviewee
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Place of Publication
Mountain View, CA
Format
MOV
Category
Oral history
Subject
IBM; Data General Corporation (DG); Scientific Data Systems; Tolerant Systems; Tolerant Software; Veritas; Stanford GSB; Rugged Digital Systems
Credit
Computer History Museum