CHAPTER 3
GOAL
It’s the idea that matters. It doesn’t matter where you come from or what your background is. One revolutionary idea, one brilliant invention can unleash other entrepreneurs to revolutionize industries in ways you can never predict.
SUNDAR PICHAI, CEO, ALPHABET (GOOGLE)
A few years ago, Alexandra Dean told me about Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, a documentary Dean and producer Adam Haggiag were working on. As a film buff, I knew Hedy Lamarr was a glamorous Hollywood film star and Austrian Jewish immigrant, but I didn’t know Lamarr was also an ingenious inventor, a pioneer in modern communications technology.
In 1937 Lamarr left ...
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