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Silicon Valley Legend Gives Tips to Beginning Entrepreneurs.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2000
Oct. 27--Al Shugart has been a Silicon Valley legend for as long as there's been a Silicon Valley. In the mid-'50s at IBM's downtown San Jose lab, he was one of the young engineers to develop RAMAC, the first disk drive. He founded Shugart Associates in 1973 and co-founded Seagate Technology in 1979.
After being ousted from Seagate in 1998, Shugart launched Al Shugart International, a "start-up resource center" providing services and capital to entrepreneurs. He currently oversees a network-storage start-up of his own, Shugart Technology. Recently Shugart, 70, talked with Mercury News Staff Writer David Plotnikoff about what it takes to be a Silicon Valley survivor.
QUESTION: For all the talk about "serial entrepreneurs" these days, you're one of the...
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