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How extensively has your organization seeded or formed a data democracy? To identify the “purple-ness” of your organization (where purple people can be found, where red and blue people are turning purple), evaluate your organization’s data monetization connections: Of the five kinds of connections—embedded experts, multidisciplinary teams, shared

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he helped start a research group called MIDAS, which stood for Mining Data at Stanford.

Kordestani said that as someone with an immigrant background and an engineering education, he had eschewed any form of organizational politicking, despite having taken my class, believing that the quality of a person’s work spoke for itself and that people should be modest and self-effacing. Not embracing the class material, Kordestani did not

In 1995, not long after Amazon opened, Jeff Bezos and his team engaged MPI. In that role, MPI worked with Amazon to make connections within the publishing industry, enabling the new company to better understand how the industry operated and how to get on publishers’ radar as a serious new account.

You can’t understand personal computing and the techno-economic transition it brought about if you don’t keep in mind that it was all about radical entrepreneurs sealing an alliance with returns-hungry venture capitalists.

Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. He started Pay-Pal in 1998, led it as CEO, and took it public in 2002, defining a new era of fast and secure online commerce. In 2004 he made the first outside investment in Facebook, where he serves as a director. The same year he launched Palantir Technologies, a software company that harnesses

He regularly invited top computer scientists to his office to explain emerging trends in hardware and software. He had three home computers. He was typing a future bestseller, Earth in the Balance, on an early laptop. He went to computer-industry conferences, wrote articles for Scientific American, and fluently spoke the language of VLSI and AI,