Steve Wozniak couldn't get Hewlett-Packard to take an interest in small computers. He very reluctantly left to join Steve Jobs, who couldn't sell a similar idea to Atari. They formed Apple Computers.
Source: Intrapreneuring, 1986.
-- Gifford Pinchot, III, (Jan 0 0-0), US management consultant, author, speaker; His book, Intrapreneuring: Why You Don't Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur, (1985) defined ground rules for an emerging field.