WordPerfect would have crashed and burned, if it weren't for a third partner owning 1%. It's a very long story, but one of the anecdotes is how a non-technical

WordPerfect would have crashed and burned, if it weren't for a third partner owning 1%. It's a very long story, but one of the anecdotes is how a non-technical founder (who owned ~49%, and was painted as a great maverick hustler, but not so great in a larger operation) got booted by the technical founder, and a third guy who was there as a tie-breaker (and also was the manager for a while). The books here: http://www.wordplace.com/ap/index.shtml http://www.wordplace.com/ap/index.shtml