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The Innovation Stack

You know that Jack Dorsey started Square, the payments company. Lesser known is his co-founder, Jim McKelvey. I heard him in a Harvard Business Review podcast, which is my go-to when on a long weekend walk to Stern Grove in San Francisco. Stern Grove, a stunning grove with a permanent stage, is legendary for its…

Competing against Giants

As a new Computer Science & Engineering grad at MIT, I was interviewed by Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM. Microsoft spot-rated my C code. IBM (actually) said that only US citizens should bother applying. Oracle flew me to California, put me up in a hotel, and my to-be boss took me to dinner. Oracle won me…