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Senra's 300th episode covers Edwin Land, Steve Jobs's hero and the inventor of instant photography. Land dropped out of Harvard, founded Polaroid, and created a company culture where scientific excellence and commercial success were inseparable.
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Canon
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Jobs visited Land at Polaroid and said 'It was like visiting a shrine.' Jobs modeled Apple's intersection of art and technology directly on Land's philosophy. The dead mentor (Land died in 1991) shaped the living student's greatest company.
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Land was a scientist who happened to run a company. When the board forced him out, he spent his remaining years doing pure research. The CEO was the false self; the scientist was the true self.
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