A Professor's $1,000 Bet Built Hewlett-Packard
Two decades before venture capital existed as an industry - -a Stanford professor was already personally underwriting his students' startups
Two decades before venture capital existed as an industry - -a Stanford professor was already personally underwriting his students' startups
Frederick Terman Didn't Found a Company or Make a Fortune - He Built the System that Made both Inevitable
When Everyone Told Jane Stanford to close the University - She Chose Poverty and Saved it
Leland Stanford built a railroad empire — then his only son died and he decided to build something that would outlast them both.
Great coding and great interviewing are different skill trees. Here’s the 70% that gets strong engineers rejected.
NASA needed software that could not fail - so she invented the discipline now called software engineering
A small Go hub, simple agents, and enough monitoring for the awkward middle between nothing and Prometheus.
One man demoed the mouse, hypertext, and the video call in a single afternoon in 1968 — the world took fifty years to make them ordinary
And Why It Might Be Apple's Most Important in a Decade
DEC built serious machines for serious people — then computing stopped being serious
I myself have also received relatively rich rewards.
The direction is right. The execution has three problems nobody has solved yet.