Darl McBride:
CEO of The SCO Group

Leader Lowdown

Person you respect or idolize most, other than family:   Ronald Reagan
How you describe yourself:   Overachiever
Bad habit:   Workaholic
Good habit:   Workaholic

Darl McBride learned the principles of capitalism early on, when he put in a cornfield at his family’s home at the age of 8. While he had tended a garden prior to that, even winning a ribbon at a local fair for the biggest squash, he wanted more than kudos for his hard work. So he decided to plant corn starting in May and continuing through August and sell his crop around town. That meant getting up at five in the morning, watering and weeding his corn. “This was my project. I ran it,” he says, still proud of his first real business. “Gosh, I had a good acre or two of cornfield.”