Their portfolio is an eclectic collection of mostly Internet bets (see table), 75% of them seed-stage investments in companies that had received no venture funding.

FORBES: Tadpoles

Their portfolio is an eclectic collection of mostly Internet bets (see table), 75% of them seed-stage investments in companies that have received no venture funding.

FORBES: Tadpoles

With only a high school and trade school education, he parlayed a pair of early inventions into seed money for a company based upon a revolutionary idea of physics: that a random, amorphous collection of atoms would be more powerful and cheaper than structured, crystalline ones to create and store energy and information.

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