Ross Perot Left IBM in 1962 and Started a Company With $1,000. In 1984, General Motors Bought It for $2.5 Billion
IBM capped his commissions, so Ross Perot quit with a borrowed $1,000 and a pitch his former employer had already rejected. What he built from that rejection forced one of America's largest corporations to come to him decades later. In January 1962, a …