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What he did was very technical. His lab looks like a "mad scientist" lab, but he also built very specific machinery to apply his formula for industrial use/tes

What he did was very technical. His lab looks like a "mad scientist" lab, but he also built very specific machinery to apply his formula for industrial use/testing. I guess best analogy would be a senior coder, who was promoted to a managerial position and not allowed to work on code. Upon retirement, he created a one-person app/saas company.

pestaa 10y ago
But a one-person app/saas company is rarely a solution to some of the biggest challenges of an industry. Can you at least specify the field in which your father innovated?
- argonaut 10y ago
  Yet a one-person professor research team routinely solves big challenges in certain research fields?
  - firebones 10y ago
    I momentarily thought this might be a "Breaking Bad" troll...
    - argonaut 10y ago
      Not trolling. Academics routinely solve huge challenges in research fields. No reason a retired engineer can't solve problems in a niche industry field.
- sixQuarks 10y ago
  He's in a small-enough industry where this can happen.