Sublime

These are users of existing products and services who come to find them deficient and start not only envisioning improvements, but building and using them. Von

Baldwin

This hybrid of user-generated and editor-enhanced is quite common.

Over the next two weeks, he met with Omidyar outside of Benchmark’s office and discovered that he was an anomalous kind of engineer, one who was consumed by the idea of community—every other sentence, he spoke about the eBay community, building the community, learning from the community, protecting the community. It was a passion similar to what, i

What gets measured gets managed, I sometimes told customers, quoting a management guru whose writing I had never read.

he first figuratively and then literally set out to “play God,” initially by making the claim that humans had the power of gods and then during the past decade by creating an organization to save and restore endangered species with modern biotechnology.

On the other end of the spectrum were kids like Larry Page, who would come in and say, “Here’s what I think I can do.” And his proposals were crazy. He’d come into the office and talk about doing something with space tethers or solar kites.