Charles H. Ferguson
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Charles H. Ferguson co-founded Vermeer Technologies Incorporated, the original creator of Microsoft FrontPage. Ferguson detailed his experiences from the company in his 1999 book, High St@kes, No Prisoners, including raising venture capital, building the product, and finally selling it to Microsoft for $133 million in 1996.
He currently is a documentary filmmaker. His first film "No End in Sight: The American Occupation of Iraq" won a special jury prize for documentaries at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
He earned a B.A. in mathematics in 1978 from the University of California, Berkeley and PhD in political science in 1989 from MIT. He has consulted for the White House, served on the Council of Foreign Relations, and is a member of the Brookings Institution.
[edit] Books
- Computer Wars: The Fall of IBM and the Future of Global Technology (with Charles R. Morris) (1993)
- High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars (1999)
- The Broadband Problem: Anatomy of a Market Failure and a Policy Dilemma (2004) ISBN 0-8157-0644-8
