Going around and having conversations like the ones in this article about the origins of the Segway:
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/3533.html
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/3533.html
Featuring Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon.com) Steve Jobs (founder of Apple) and others.
“Bezos suggested starting slow, using one city or country as an experimental station (…) The perfect place to begin, thought Bezos, was Singapore. ‘You only have to convince one guy, the philosopher king, and then you have four million people to test it.’
Vern Loucks, who had been quietly watching the fireworks up to this point, said, ‘You mean Gob Click Tong. He’s not a king, he’s the prime minister. I can get us in to see him if we want to do that.‘ “
Be right back, Bill Gates is calling.
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