The college dropout founded Gateway--until a few years ago known as Gateway 2000--in an Iowa farmhouse with his brother Norm in 1985.

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Jabil has a customer list to die for-Cisco, Dell, Hewlett- Packard, 3Com, Gateway 2000, Nortel Networks and Ascend Communications, to name a few.

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Already, he has brought in a respected new COO, Scott Flaig, and a new marketing chief, Jim Taylor, from the Holstein fields of Gateway 2000.

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