Founders

What I learned from reading The Instant Image: Edwin Land and the Polaroid Experience by Mark Olshaker.  ---- [1:42] The word “problem” had completely departed from Edwin land's vocabulary to be replaced by the word “opportunity”.  [2:01] What was it about this man and his company that allowed such confidence and seeming lack of concern with the traditional top priorities of American business?  [2:38] There is something unique about Polaroid having to do both with the human dimension of the company, and with a unity of vision of its founder and guiding genius.   [3:36] Perhaps the single most important aspect of Land's character is his ability to regard things around him in a new and totally different way.   [4:14] Right from the beginning of his career Land had paid scant attention to what experts had to say, trusting his own instincts instead.   [4:49] Land has always believed that for any item sufficiently ingenious and intriguing, a new market could be created. Conventional wisdom has little capacity with