![]() ![]() Money’s supposed to move around.”Īs Kidder describes him, English was driven less by the desire to make, or give away, money than by the urge to build new teams and projects, both philanthropic and commercial. ![]() “I don’t think money ever really belongs to one person. “What else would you do with it?” said English. Tom White would become a mentor and father-figure to English, setting the bar for donating his fortune to the causes of homelessness and medical aid. He immediately sought counsel from the uncle of a friend, a man with a long history as a philanthropist. His first brush with wealth came with the sale of Boston Light Software, an e-commerce firm that he founded in 1998 during the dot-com frenzy, and sold, only months later, for $33.5 million. Unlike most programmers, he always had an eye for the customer and for the usefulness of a product – “a superb meta sense” was how one corporate leader put it.Īnd he was obsessed with money – in the best possible sense. Eagerly sought for his unique mix of engineering skill and marketing prowess, English held key posts at Intuit and other leading companies. This episode foretells the genius and ambitions of a man who lived on the cusp of the zeitgeist, a trailblazer of the new era. Tracy Kidder Photo by Gabriel Amadeus Cooney ![]()
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