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Biography

Brent Schlender has written extensively about the high-tech industries, business strategy, and management and leadership, and also spent many years as a foreign correspondent for both Fortune and The Wall Street Journal in Latin America and Asia. He also co-developed a dramatic television series with Robert Altman and Garry Trudeau called Killer App, and moonlighted playing saxophones in a Bay Area rhythm and blues band for 15 years. He’s best known for his lengthy interviews and profiles of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Andy Grove, Akio Morita, Bill Joy, John Chambers, Peter Drucker, and other notable business leaders.

Content

Total articles 24

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  Preserving Deleted Articles About Bill Gates Talking Like a Drug Dealer About Computer Users

  By Corey Grice, Sandeep Junnarkar, Brent Schlender, WARREN BUFFETT

  Jan. 13, 2025

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  April 12, 2015 Los Angeles Times Best Sellers Available at the Library

  By Dennis Lehane, Harlan Coben, Brent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli

  Nov. 11, 2019

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  How Steve Jobs found Buddhism

  By Brent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli

  May. 29, 2018

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