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Six Ways to Befriend Future Tech Billionaires

Harvard Business Review

billion, is one more in a line of twenty-somethings and even pre-twenty-somethings whose technology innovations have made them a fortune. I''ve observed six characteristics among digital entrepreneurs that suggest room for inter-generational relationships: They are learning all the time. David Karp, who sold Tumblr to Yahoo for $1.1

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

federal research investments enabled the invention of the magnetic storage drive, lithium-ion batteries, and liquid crystal display technologies that paved the way for the next generation of consumer electronics in the 1980s and 1990s, the U.S. When it comes to manufacturing, the country has lost the capacity for “learning by doing.”