Kenneth Langone, who played a critical role in the founding of Home Depot, and former Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner were among his many well-known clients.

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He raised millions in capital to aid in the founding of The Home Depot in 1978, and he left that company's board after 30 years in 2010 and joined Geeknet the same year.

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In the home of the founding fathers of the phenomenon in the UK, Hay-on-Wye, there are clearly mixed feelings about e-readers.

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The Motorola car radio was released by the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in 1930, two years after the company's founding in Chicago, kicking things off with a battery eliminator, aimed at letting battery-powered home radios run off of household electricity.

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