Empire Builders · EB-036
HE PITCHED SOFTWARE WITH NO SERVERS. I SHOWED HIM THE 1996 NETBOOK GRAVEYARD. HE QUIT ANYWAY.
On March 12, 1999, Marc Chen resigned from Titan Database Corporation to pursue a vision for delivering enterprise software without client installations. Ray Kowalski, his manager, used past failures to forewarn him about the challenges, yet by 2004, Chen's CloudVault Systems was worth four billion dollars.
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