#264 The Story of Edwin Land and Polaroid

Polaroid followed a path that has since become familiar in Silicon Valley. Tech genius founder has a fantastic idea and finds like minded colleagues to develop it. They pull a ridiculous number of all nighters to do so. With as much passion for the problem solving as for the product. Venture capital and smart marketing follows. Everyone gets rich, but not for the sake of getting rich.

The possibilities seem limitless. The most obvious parallel is to Apple. Both companies specialized in relentless obsessive refinement of their technologies. Both were established close to great research universities to attract talent. Both fetishized superior

Elegant. Covetable product design. And both companies exploded in size and wealth. Under an in house visionary genius. At Apple, that was Steve Jobs.

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