She aims to use the experience garnered over the past five years as a "force for change" to give educational opportunities to more girls from poor backgrounds in other countries and help raise the next generation of female leaders and entrepreneurs.

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"These are the people who over the next five years will enter adulthood, who know nothing but the digital experience, " he says.

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The big shock:Irwin Jacobs named his son, then age 32 and with all of five years of experience in the working world, to run the new venture, passing over Richard Kornfeld, a senior manager, who quit shortly afterward.

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