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It was the unusual case of a competent son of the founder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Watson_Jr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Watson_Jr. >Although the initiative, and as such much of the credit for the birth of the information revolution, must go to Tom Jr., considerable courage was also displayed by his then aging father who, despite his long commitment to internal funding, backed his son to the hilt; reportedly with the words "It is harder to keep a business great than it is to build it."