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Why Steve Jobs needed a second beginning
Leaving Apple gave Steve Jobs two unfamiliar classrooms: a computer company called NeXT and an animation studio called Pixar. The return that followed carried lessons a product launch could never teach.
Maceo Kwik Walked Away From $400K ARR to Build the Computer He Actually Wanted
Datost found revenue fast. Its founder found something harder: a reason to stop. Now the engineer who once squeezed a startup into the hours after work is betting on camera-free AI glasses, factory emails at night and a quieter kind of computer.
Mitch Kapor
Mitch Kapor is the Brooklyn-born software pioneer who created Lotus 1-2-3 - the killer app that made the IBM PC indispensable - then co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation to protect digital civil liberties, and eventually built Kapor Capital into one of venture capital's most deliberately diverse funds. At 74, he made headlines completing the MIT Sloan master's degree he started in 1979 before leaving to launch Lotus. He and his wife Freada Kapor Klein run Kapor Capital from Oakland, investing in founders building tech for underserved communities - arguing that inclusion isn't charity, it's good business.