<section id="cb-fca84ac2d6c052c3779f073975e97c0f" class="canvas-block canvas-block-blogroll canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-blogroll "> Ross Perot, 2-time presidential candidate and self-made billionaire, is dead.
</section> <section id="cb-8dd5071056b47425795f3b1f723b869f" class="canvas-block canvas-block-blogroll canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-blogroll "> The Texas software pioneer became a billionaire in 1984 when General Motors bought his company, Electronic Data Systems, for $2.5 billion.
</section> <section id="cb-4a353fce271758422e3335e8b23496b6" class="canvas-block canvas-block-blogroll canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-blogroll "> Perot founded EDS in 1962 with a $1,000 loan his wife floated him.
Perot famously would break down American politics and the economy using bar graphs and pie graphs, using his handy pointer.
<section id="cb-ac0fcee634ec6abed02adbfa14d81571" class="canvas-block canvas-block-blogroll canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-blogroll "> The conventional wisdom is that Perot was the reason Bill Clinton got elected, because he split the Republican vote when he ran as an independent. The Perot spoiler factor in presidential elections lives to this day.
</section> <section id="cb-a79ace04abeb31bb6e2f3865b6950af4" class="canvas-block canvas-block-blogroll canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-blogroll "> Perot, who amassed $4 billion, donated a total of $90 million to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
</section> <section id="cb-5b7a708473c9b3a3b72d23e27ee5027b" class="canvas-block canvas-block-blogroll canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-blogroll "> EDS was only one of Perot's businesses. In 1988, he founded Perot Systems Corp., which Dell bought in 2009 for $3.9 billion.
</section> <section id="cb-07ce5f9466a781cc50281f60119d5cc7" class="canvas-block canvas-block-blogroll canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-blogroll "> Perot died Tuesday after battling leukemia for 5 months.
</section> <section id="cb-3b46ffa54630135ec3b5b7e01e2d7b34" class="canvas-block canvas-block-blogroll canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-blogroll "> Perot is survived by wife of 63 years, Margot. They had 5 children and have 16 grandchildren.
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Ross Perot was 89. RIP.
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</section> <section id="cb-8dd5071056b47425795f3b1f723b869f" class="canvas-block canvas-block-blogroll canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-blogroll "> The Texas software pioneer became a billionaire in 1984 when General Motors bought his company, Electronic Data Systems, for $2.5 billion.
</section> <section id="cb-4a353fce271758422e3335e8b23496b6" class="canvas-block canvas-block-blogroll canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-blogroll "> Perot founded EDS in 1962 with a $1,000 loan his wife floated him.
Perot famously would break down American politics and the economy using bar graphs and pie graphs, using his handy pointer.
<section id="cb-ac0fcee634ec6abed02adbfa14d81571" class="canvas-block canvas-block-blogroll canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-blogroll "> The conventional wisdom is that Perot was the reason Bill Clinton got elected, because he split the Republican vote when he ran as an independent. The Perot spoiler factor in presidential elections lives to this day.
</section> <section id="cb-a79ace04abeb31bb6e2f3865b6950af4" class="canvas-block canvas-block-blogroll canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-blogroll "> Perot, who amassed $4 billion, donated a total of $90 million to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
</section> <section id="cb-5b7a708473c9b3a3b72d23e27ee5027b" class="canvas-block canvas-block-blogroll canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-blogroll "> EDS was only one of Perot's businesses. In 1988, he founded Perot Systems Corp., which Dell bought in 2009 for $3.9 billion.
</section> <section id="cb-07ce5f9466a781cc50281f60119d5cc7" class="canvas-block canvas-block-blogroll canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-blogroll "> Perot died Tuesday after battling leukemia for 5 months.
</section> <section id="cb-3b46ffa54630135ec3b5b7e01e2d7b34" class="canvas-block canvas-block-blogroll canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-blogroll "> Perot is survived by wife of 63 years, Margot. They had 5 children and have 16 grandchildren.
</section> <section id="cb-24c09b893e5e1d3a79df5b0d9a072cd1" class="canvas-block canvas-block-blogroll canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-blogroll canvas-block-is-last ">
Ross Perot was 89. RIP.
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