If the industry’s leaders had instead followed sporting careers, at what games might they have excelled? The granite mien of Ken Olsen suggests that he is clearly cast in the role of a cricketer – opening batsman in the Geoff Boycott mould; John Sculley’s versatility suggests that he might have won Olympic gold as a decathlete; if he considered Monopoly beneath him, Bill Gates would surely have made a mean world chess champion, but what of John Akers? Computergram alumnus Nick Simms has no doubt that the fixed grin and Boy Scout ability to whistle cheerfully under all adversities mark him out as one of life’s natural synchronised swimmers.
