From: "Alan (Miburi-san) Wexelblat" <wex@media.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 93 08:21:48 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Bobby Inman
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>Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 23:45:44 -0800
>From: Pierre Uszynski <pierre@shell.portal.com>

>There was some mentions that he spend some time in the private sector since
>"then". Anybody knows what he was doing?

Well, part of the time he was heading up MCC, the Austin-based research
consortium.  Someday y'all can buy me a beer and I'll tell you the saga of
my 3.5 years at MCC, about 2.5 of which overlapped with Inman.

But as a leader I'd say his biggest strength was his incredible intelligence
and ability to deal with almost any problem.  He never let *anything* faze
him.  He was a good leader, too, giving MCC just the right profile in the
eyes of the people (corporate CEOs mostly) who were signing our sponsorship
checks.

Biggest weakness: trusting the wrong people.  His "Chief Scientist"
underling was a joke and he let too many of the wrong people do too many of
the wrong things while they worked for him.

--Alan Wexelblat, Reality Hacker, Author, and Cyberspace Bard
Media Lab - Advanced Human Interface Group	wex@media.mit.edu
Voice: 617-258-9168 Page: 617-945-1842		an53607@anon.penet.fi
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