In 2009, the writer Malcolm Gladwell wrote an article called "How David Beats Goliath" about how underdogs could upend existing systems and win, because of their ability and willingness to break conventional rules.
Typically, he starts this article with an anecdote: this time about a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who coached his daughter Anjali's school basketball team, and took them from no-hopers to the national championship.
Who was this man?
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Vivek Ranadive, the CEO of Tibco, who leads a group that purchased the Sacramento Kings NBA team in May 2013. An article on the acquisition
is here, and here's
the Gladwell article.
This day last year: Q.599