JetBlue Airways: David Neeleman

JetBlue Airways: David Neeleman

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Colin Angle didn’t start out trying to clean people’s floors.He started out trying to shape the future–with robots. In the early days of iRobot, there was no business model. No steady funding. No clear customer.Just a belief that robotic technology would one day make the world a ...  Show more

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