Sublime

Larry was an engineer’s engineer,

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.

Father grinned and winked at his visitor. Joe Kane decided that the man who confronted him was mildly insane but harmless.

Kleiner Perkins built a valuable keiretsu of growing companies that could share talent and resources, increasing their chances of success.

the son of a computer science pioneer. He was a soft-spoken nonconformist, a rebel with a 10x cause:

Doug spent even more time writing faxes to his two grown kids—Angie, nineteen, and Jaime, twenty-seven—whom he’d raised as a single father.