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It took 45 years, but spreadsheet legend Mitch Kapor finally got his MIT degree
Kapor dropped out of MIT’s Sloan School of Management in the '70s to join the startup world. An old friend ribbed him into coming back.
MIT professor Bill Aulet chuckled to himself when he decided to invite his old friend and famed software programmer and investor Mitch Kapor to give a speech about entrepreneurship at the school this spring. After graduating from Yale in 1971 and bouncing around for almost a decade as “a lost and wandering soul,” working as a disc jockey, a Transcendental Meditation teacher, and a mental health counselor, Kapor said he became entranced by the possibilities of the new Apple II personal computer. Around 1982, Aulet was working at IBM in the then-new personal computer unit when Kapor visited the tech giant’s Madison Avenue office in New York to demonstrate Lotus 1-2-3.
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