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The must-read summary of W. E. Pete Peterson's book: "Almost Perfect: How a Bunch of Regular Guys Built WordPerfect Corporation".
This complete summary of the ideas from W. E. Pete Peterson's book "Almost Perfect" tells the story of Bruce Bastian and how he created WordPerfect. In this book, the author reveals how the company rose to fame through its progress and innovations, as well as the many challenges it faced. This summary sheds some light on exactly what makes a company successful by looking at all the different aspects, from organisation structure to cash flow limitations.
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This complete summary of the ideas from W. E. Pete Peterson's book "Almost Perfect" tells the story of Bruce Bastian and how he created WordPerfect. In this book, the author reveals how the company rose to fame through its progress and innovations, as well as the many challenges it faced. This summary sheds some light on exactly what makes a company successful by looking at all the different aspects, from organisation structure to cash flow limitations.
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• Expand your knowledge
To learn more, read "Almost Perfect" and discover the story behind the company that began with one man and grew to include almost 3,000 employees.
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Almost Perfect by W. E. Pete Peterson
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This is a summary and not a critique or a review of the book. It does not offer judgment or opinion on the content of the book. This summary may not be organized chapter-wise but is an overview of the main ideas, viewpoints and arguments from the book as a whole. This means that the organization of this summary is not a representation of the book.
1. AN IDEA TAKES SHAPE
In 1977, Bruce Bastian, a university student at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah wrote a Master of Science thesis on 3-D computer graphics. Bastian was a passionate member of the university’s marching band called the Incomparable Cougar Marching Band. His main motivation in going into 3-D graphics was to be able to display the band’s marching formations as they would be seen from any seat in a stadium.
Bastian’s thesis caught the attention of Alan Ashton, the Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University. When Bastion graduated, Ashton talked him into coming to work for a new company he was forming to write word processing software.
Ashton was exceptionally well suited to starting a software company. He had earned a Ph.D. at the University of Utah which was one of the first universities in the world to offer a doctorate in computer science. Among his fellow students were a number of computer pioneers who would later attain fame and fortune including John Warnock (the founder of Adobe), Bob Evans (of Evans and Sutherland) and Alan Kay who would go on to work at Xerox PARC and Apple Computer.
In the early days of computers, most word processors used embedded codes with formatting instructions. That meant a document would contain cryptic key words in the body of the document to specify how each section was to appear. To be able to visualized how any
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