Equally important, Saylor talked MIT fraternity brother Sanju K. Bansal, an Indian-born engineer with a master's in computer science, into leaving Booz, Allen to join him in the new business.
Like that time in 1990 when Thomas K. Figge got wind of a dozen wooden duck decoys carved by master craftsman Bert Graves that were just sitting, unloved, on the mantel of a funeral home near Bloomington, Ill.