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Article: Thriving on 'evangelizing the concept'
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- June 17, 2007
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This is the first in an occasional series on Bay Area
entrepreneurs
IT'S THE VISION THING that makes Jim Marggraff the quintessential
entrepreneur. The Oakland businessman seems obsessed with how an
optics-based computing platform involving pen and paper can change
the way people learn and communicate.
Then again, the 49-year-old engineer has always been obsessed
with new ideas about learning and digitized communications -- ideas
that, as he describes it, "have the potential to cause a shift in
thinking."
So far, Marggraff has used computer technologies to change the
way telephone calls get transmitted down telecommunications lines,
to change the way young kids learn to read and to help ...