ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I consider myself extremely lucky. One primary reason is that I have had the privilege of learning from so many smart people.

From 2007 to 2009, a small group of people at Innosight, under the leadership of Brad Gambill, dedicated their lives to the hard work of incubating new businesses. Brad, Hari Nair, George Tattersfield, Alasdair Trotter, Kuen Loon Ho, Dheeraj Batra, Elnor Rozenrot, Dan Gay, and Vijay Raju in particular taught me an inordinate amount about what life is really like in innovation’s first mile.

In 2005 Matt Eyring started exploring the possibility of using Innosight’s IP as the backbone of an investment business. The baton was passed a few years ago to Pete Bonee and Piyush Chaplot, who drive those activities ...

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