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Leaving Microsoft to change the world : an entrepreneur's odyssey to educate the world's children /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wood, John, 1964 January 29-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Collins, [2006]
Subjects:
Education, Rural > South Asia > Case studies.
Education, Rural > Southeast Asia > Case studies.
Room to Read (Organization)
Wood, John, > 1964 January 29-
Table of Contents:
  • Discovering Nepal; leaving Microsoft
  • "Perhaps, Sir, you will someday come back with books"
  • An idea burns by candlelight
  • You need to get home soon!
  • Woody and john's excellent adventure
  • Debating a radical change
  • Lonely in a city of 12 million strangers
  • Gates in China
  • Walking away
  • Starting over
  • The start-up years: an object in motion remains in motion
  • Making the ask - Expansion beyond Nepal
  • A postcard from Nepal
  • What every entrepreneur needs: a strong second-in-command
  • September 11
  • Building "the Microsoft of nonprofits"
  • Building the network
  • You life is a mess
  • Hitting our stride
  • Putting girls in the place-school!
  • "Count me in Don"
  • The students of Cambodia - The network goes into overdrive
  • Democracy in action in India
  • The Tsunami
  • The millionth book
  • The next chapter of my adult life.