A few names from Upside's elite 100.....
Co-founder, President and CEO, Broadcom
Corp.
The chip company that Nicholas founded with Henry Samueli
has cornered the lion's share of the market for the
semiconductors that permeate digital settop boxes, cable
modems, Ethernet networking gear, digital broadcast satellite
equipment and digital subscriber line (DSL) modems. When
Broadcom went public on April 17, its stock opened at $24 a
share and shot as high as $70 before closing that day at
$53.63. Not bad for a chip company in the midst of a
semiconductor downturn, not to mention one that's still waiting
for its main market to catch up to it. But it was just another
feather in the cap of the duo who founded PairGain
Technologies Inc. and the guy who invented high-bit-rate
DSL--the technology used to install T1 lines that has become
the bread and butter of PairGain.--K.A.
Also Nominated: Close, but no cigar
Mike Farmwald
Chromatic Research Inc.
. Frank Quattrone
Managing Director, Technology Group,
Credit Suisse First Boston Corp.
While some say Quattrone is still living off taking Amazon.com
Inc. public in May 1997, we say differently. Anyone who can
pull off a move like Quattrone did in 1998 must have influence
somewhere. After telling the world he wouldn't leave
Deutsche Morgan Grenfell (now Deutsche Bank Securities)
for greener pastures, Quattrone did the unthinkable: He left
Deutsche with just about his entire technology team in tow and
settled in at CSFB. And he didn't even get sued.--J.E.
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