Parekh joined Amazon that September, becoming the first employee of Lab126, a secret Silicon Valley skunkworks.

帕尔克那年9月加入了亚马逊，成为了126实验室——一个硅谷秘密的“臭鼬工厂”——的第一个员工。

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So in 1993 he began a three-person skunkworks to develop a better version, without telling his father.

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If they still are curious, optimistic, questioning and engaged, they should be challenged to think out of the box, join skunkworks teams and make a difference.

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Microsoft started playing in 1998 when the Xbox division was set up in a skunkworks office away from the main Microsoft campus and across the road from a gravel pit at the end of the 520 freeway.

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