Remarkable lives. Unlikely beginnings.
Some of the sharpest minds in venture capital looked at Apple, Amazon, and Netflix and took a hard pass. Their reasoning wasn't stupid — and that's exactly what makes these stories so worth understanding.
In 1967, a race official grabbed Kathrine Switzer mid-stride and tried to physically tear her out of the Boston Marathon. She kept running. What happened in the next few hours — and the next few decades — rewrote the rules of American athletics.
Lawrence Argument arrived at NASA with a mop and a hunger that no one had scheduled time for. What happened next is one of the quiet miracles of the Space Race — a story about what happens when curiosity refuses to clock out.