Leaving Microsoft to change the world
Subtitle: an entrepreneur's odyssey to educate the world's children
By: John Wood.
Publisher: Collins
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780061121074
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Discovering Nepal; leaving Microsoft; title: "Perhaps, Sir, you will someday come back with books"; title: An idea burns by candlelight; title: You need to get home soon!; title: Woody and John's excellent adventure; title: Debating a radical change; title: Lonely in a city of 12 million strangers; title: Gates in China; title: Walking away; title: Starting over; title: The start-up years: an object in motion remains in motion; title: Making the ask - Expansion beyond Nepal; title: A postcard from Nepal; title: What every entrepreneur needs: a strong second-in-command; title: September 11; title: Building "the Microsoft of nonprofits"; title: Building the network; title: You life is a mess; title: Hitting our stride; title: Putting girls in the place-school!; title: "Count me in Don"; title: The students of Cambodia - The network goes into overdrive; title: Democracy in action in India; title: The Tsunami; title: The millionth book; title: The next chapter of my adult life.