> Like when we were both consulting for Thinking Machines in Boston, I would always be jumping up and down about how if the management of the company didn’t do

> Like when we were both consulting for Thinking Machines in Boston, I would always be jumping up and down about how if the management of the company didn’t do this or that, they would fail. He would just say, “Why don’t you let these people run their company; we can’t figure out this kind of stuff.” Sadly, the company did in the end fail. But that’s another story. Thinking Machines failed, though it did turn into some other cool stuff, including a company called Ab Initio. Their data warehousing software formed the basis for my first job as a consultant out of college. It also made me want to study machine learning. Little did I know the creators of Ab Initio had previously been part of a significant stab at AI via Thinking Machines Corporation.