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...California. In one jam-packed day in Silicon Valley, he revealed the Segway to officials from San Francisco International Airport, the California department of transportation, the city of Palo Alto, Stanford University and Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers. Especially gratifying to Kamen was the reaction of Andy Grove, the chairman of Intel and, unlike so many Silicon Valley boosters, a bone-deep skeptic. Perched tentatively on the machine, the 65-year-old Grove was rolling slowly along when Doerr ambled over and pushed him in the chest. When the Segway kept him from losing his balance, Grove emitted a distinctly...
...asked Grove what he thought of the Segway as a business. "The consumer market is always harder," he said. "But when you think about it, the corporate market is almost unlimited. If the Postal Service and FedEx deploy this for all their carriers, the company will be busy for the next five years just keeping up with that demand...
...dread that day." Never mind that people die every day on bicycles, in crosswalks, on skateboards, in cars. The Segway is the newest new thing, and nothing does more to set hearts afire on the contingency-fee bar. "There are some very deep pockets around this thing," remarks Andy Grove. "I fear this could be a litigation lightning...
...Ordinary life ceased to be," Grove remembers. But the cast of bad guys did change. Eventually the Russians came banging in from the East. Andris' mother was among the women they raped...
...With other refugees, he sailed for two weeks across a stormy North Atlantic, on a crowded, smelly ship whose crew included the first Asians and blacks Andris had ever seen. When the refugees got to Brooklyn, they couldn't see the Statue of Liberty. Never mind. Andy Grove began a new life on an opposite shore of history...