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Nathan Myhrvold

We better start working on inventions haha.

kenngo:

Holy… This Myhrvold guy’s a professional jack master-of-all-trades… And not to mention, “nerdy on an epic scale.”

List of some of his notable achievements:

• Started college at age 14 (Mathematics, Geophysics, Space Physics at UCLA)
• Master’s degree in Mathematical Economics at Princeton
• PhD in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics by age 23 (also at Princeton)
• Worked at Microsoft as Chief Technology Officer for 13 years, founded Microsoft Research (left in 1999 with loads of money)
• Prize-winning nature and wildlife photographer
• Involved with Paleontological research (dug up more T. Rex specimens than anyone else in the world)
• Published a lot of high-profile scientific journals
• Master French chef, has finished first in the world championship of barbeque in Memphis
• Classical “bassoonist” (what the hell?)
• Currently runs a company called Intellectual Ventures (his firm has gathered around 3,000 to 5,000 patents, more than any other company that purchases and invents patents - and he hasn’t started suing yet!)
• Because of IV, some call him the “most feared man in Silicon Valley”

Last, he’s not 50 yet…

I’m feeling inadequate already, and I’m 19.