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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
—JIM MORRISON
Dave Myers had an idea to create and apply a polymer to the gears of his mountain bike so he could shift more smoothly as he was climbing hills.1 Myers was used to ascending the steep hills in Flagstaff, Arizona, where he worked at the W.L. Gore & Associates medical-products facility, which was devoted to the development and manufacturing of implantable medical devices. This was an unlikely place for innovations to bicycle gear cables. However, Myers worked for a company that encourages its associates to spend time on speculative new ideas inside entrepreneurial ...
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