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Larry was an engineer’s engineer,
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Kelleher was a hero-worshiper and a reader of history and literature who could reel off couplets from Wordsworth, aphorisms from Clausewitz, and exchanges from Nixon’s 1950 debates with Helen Gahagan Douglas.
Thomas Petzinger Jr. • Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
Kyle Vogt
the son of a computer science pioneer. He was a soft-spoken nonconformist, a rebel with a 10x cause:
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Cedric Chin • Exec Development is a Different Game
Frank Donovan, a lifetime close friend and a lawyer from Detroit. He was known among his friends and clients as a brilliant legal analyst with a nonaggressive temperament. No litigator. When we were both twenty, I remember him saying: "When there's a fight, I pick up my hat and go home." He had a large head, somewhat out of proportion to
... See moreJohn McDonald • A Ghost's Memoir: The Making of Alfred P. Sloan's My Years with General Motors (The MIT Press)
Harvey had also been impressed by his willingness to chase a wild boar down a steep cliff. “He is kind of an animal,” Harvey said with manifest respect. “I love that,” said Kagle.
Randall E. Stross • eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work
In the last analysis, it seems certain that Kennedy, Stephen, Hill, and Kittson did offer Farley a substantial reward—maybe even hinting at a full partnership—in return for his cooperation and betrayal of his trust.
Michael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)
he helped start a research group called MIDAS, which stood for Mining Data at Stanford.