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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, RA

Partnering up in early 1957 with a fellow researcher, Harlan Anderson, Olsen secured $70,000 from Harvard Business School professor Georges Doriot, who had established a tech-focused investment fund he called “venture capital” to support young and untested entrepreneurs. Olsen and Anderson departed MIT and moved into a shuttered textile mill in the

Gordon Forward, CEO of Chapparal Steel, introduced a Townsendian “management by adultery” (a previously X-rated concept in which Forward treated his employees like adults and then got out of the way as they set productivity records);