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Didn’t Ross Perot leave IBM because they changed his commission schedule because he was so ludicrously good at sales? I can’t find a source for that particular
by barry-cotter 8y ago
Didn’t Ross Perot leave IBM because they changed his commission schedule because he was so ludicrously good at sales? I can’t find a source for that particular story quickly but it lines up with his Wikipedia article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot
> After he left the Navy in 1957, Perot became a salesman for IBM. He quickly became a top employee (one year, he fulfilled his annual sales quota in a mere two weeks)[10] and tried to pitch his ideas to supervisors, who largely ignored him.[11] He left IBM in 1962 to found Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in Dallas, Texas, and courted large corporations for his data processing services. Perot was refused 77 times before he was given his first contract. EDS received lucrative contracts from the U.S. government in the 1960s, computerizing Medicare records. EDS went public in 1968 and the stock price rose from $16 a share to $160 within days. Fortune called Perot the "fastest, richest Texan" in a 1968 cover story.[12] In 1984 General Motors bought controlling interest in EDS for $2.4 billion.