Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

We were on the University of North Carolina campus to meet with Fred Brooks and Henry Fuchs. Later he would leave for a few years to start the Computing Directorate at the National Science Foundation , help spec what became the Internet and then come back and run Ardent’s engineering.) A few days later Gordon became a founder.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

…The features didn’t match what ultimately the customers would buy or wanted. — Wayne set his sights on entrepreneurship when he was a teen, working in the tobacco fields of North Carolina: I remember working in the tobacco field one morning. Everybody doesn’t have hi-speed Internet.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We’re addressing the) same problems but we wanted to solve the problem in a much more scalable way so we saw, around 2011 … the Internet was going to support 3D natively. … This is why when I first learned about customer development, I’m like I get this, this made a lot of sense to me. …. I was like, “Oh, my God.

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