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Carlson spent years facing rejection—, including IBM and GE, turned him down because they didn't believe there was a market for his "messy" invention. It wasn't until a small photography-paper business in Rochester called The Haloid Company took a risk on him that the technology finally found a home. Turning a Name Into a Verb

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Then came the crisis. By late 2000, Xerox was hemorrhaging money. Its business model of leasing copiers (long-term revenue) required huge upfront capital. When sales slowed, it ran out of cash. Debt was downgraded to "junk" status. The stock price plummeted from $60 to under $4. There were serious doubts Xerox would survive. Carlson spent years facing rejection—, including IBM and

What happened at PARC is legendary. Over a few years, a team of computer scientists (including Bob Taylor, Alan Kay, Butler Lampson, and others) invented or prototyped almost every element of modern personal computing: By late 2000, Xerox was hemorrhaging money