![]() ![]() It is the most charitable city in the country.”Īnd he is leading the way. But once they see the opportunity they have here and the environment they begin to say, ‘gosh, St. Louis sometimes it makes it difficult to get people from the outside to come to St. “The light of all the things that have happened in St. Louis has sometimes made bringing in talent a tough sell. “It’s wonderful we have all this technology but it’s really the corporate culture that makes the difference,” says project manager Mark Dougherty.īut Steward admits the national perception of St. And he’s why his company is one of the fortune 100 best companies to work for. A 2014 citizen of the year and Horatio Alger award winner. Louis it is about taking a leap of faith and seeing something that other’s don’t see. Any time you go into business that’s never been attempted before especially in a Midwestern city like St. Now he has about 3,000 workers and does business with many fortune 100 companies. The company’s success has skyrocketed since Steward founded it in 1990 with just 4 employees. I’m just hoping it doesn’t leave me behind.” To realize a dream like this I’m just hanging on by my fingernails on this rocket ship that keeps taking off. Happen to be a person of color growing up in the 50’s and 60’s. I mean a guy like me growing up in a small town. “The journey we’ve been on is a miracle,” says Steward. Now he runs a company worth over 6 billion dollars, World Wide Technology. Steward grew up in Clinton, Missouri in the segregated 60’s facing obstacles some of us can only imagine. ![]() LOUIS (KTVI) – David Steward is a great American success story-one of the richest men in the world and also one of the most generous. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. ![]()
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