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...absolutely thrilled with it because it's been in the planning stages for a long time now and it's finally going to happen," according to SoRelle B. Braun '96, the managing editor of Let's Go Travel who is also a former executive of The Crimson...
...Braun insists that it's not the money that keeps him doing what he is doing. "I can retire, Jim Clark can retire, Steve Jobs can retire," he says. "We don't have to go to work if we don't love it. But we love it! We're not saying, 'Oh, my God, if I work another year, I can make another $10 million' or something. That's not the motivation...
...Will Wright, who showed Braun a game called Metropolis that he had been working on. "I went ballistic," Braun says. "I knew immediately." Wright told him that everyone had turned the game down, but Braun asked him if he wanted to form a company based on the product. For the next two years, Braun and Wright worked out of Braun's apartment. "The programmers were in the living room, and the kitchen was the mail room," Braun says. "One of the bedrooms was an administrative office, and the other bedroom was mine, and it had a sign that said keep...
...NEWFOUND WEALTH, Braun sounds like Andreessen. "What you're seeing is a lot of zeroes in your net worth, but not a lot of zeroes in your bank account. It's not real! I can't go to a 7-Eleven and buy a Coke with that money." He too has modest tastes. "I'm not into boats. I'm not into planes. I'm not into clothes. So it's really hard for me!" he says, laughing. "So what's available? I got myself a nicer home, and that's about it. And I went out and bought...
Conservatives and liberals all seem to regard the high-tech entrepreneur as the ideal economic agent. They do so with good reason, for if capitalism is "creative destruction," in Joseph Schumpeter's famous phrase, then people like Marc Andreessen, Steve Jobs, Jeff Braun, Bill Schrader and Doug Colbeth are responsible for the creating part. But is there much that conservative or liberal policies can really do to nurture such enterprise? Would Marc Andreessen work harder under a flat tax? The creating part of capitalism is the part that economic laws do not explain. Like a code writer and his code...