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If you want to read about the development of PowerPoint by its visionary, you can checkout the book Sweating Bullets by Robert Gaskins:

https://amzn.to/3PvTvF0

Dennis Austin was the lead developer and Gaskins was the idea guy/manager.

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Robert Gaskins, co-creator of PowerPoint, has a personal website with info about PowerPoint: https://www.robertgaskins.com/

One can also download the "Sweating Bullets..." book in PDF form for free from his website (listed in the PowerPoint History section on the main page of his website): https://www.robertgaskins.com/powerpoint-history/sweating-bu...

"Sweating Bullets", "Almost Perfect" (http://www.wordplace.com/ap/), "The Autodesk File" (https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/e5/) and "Show Stopper!" were a few books that I think pair very well, and as a developer who wasn't around in the time really gave interesting and comparable insights into the development of a few really important companies and pieces of software.

For Visicalc, Dan Bricklin has a few blog posts: http://www.bricklin.com/history/intro.htm

For Aston-Tate's dBase app, there's this blog post about its history: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-ashton-ta...

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