Founder & CEO, Teleborder
Guo: I know Teleborder was a pivot, but I'd love to go back to the beginning. How did you get started?
Richards: Sure. So I'm a lawyer. Michael, my co-founder at the time was not a lawyer, but he hated lawyers because he'd had to deal with them a few times. And the worst part about dealing with lawyers was always feeling like you're getting screwed on bills. Lawyers are very, very expensive. They're also very opaque when i. . .
Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé (above) was attracted by the chaotic, multi-layered mix of words and images plastered on the walls of Paris—the DNA of his times. A photographer captured him harvesting a work of art in 1970—the same year he made the image (below) titled "Les Halles Pavillon", 1970 (9 x 11 inches).
Ripping torn posters off the walls, Villeglé combined the surrealism of the found object with Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. The. . .
Jennifer Dawton and Winston Fields used to run a quaint diner off Old Highway 86. It was a long, winding road slicing through dense forests and meadows grazed by cows and other four-legged creatures. The barns used to hold horses and pigs and chickens, but by the time The Beast was born, there were only machines. Still, when the Dawton-Fieldses relocated back in the eighties, there were no sub-divisions or shopping centers or cookie-cutter homes. Just tick-infested forests filled with agile an. . .
Chapter 1
Maren Kane could barely make out the yellow dividing line a few feet in front of her through the thick, grey valley fog. Her shoulders tensed as she gripped the steering wheel, unsure which direction the narrow country highway would take next. The speed limit sign at 50 in reflective paint seemed a cruel joke.
Maren was in her fourth year as chief lobbyist at Ecobabe Inc., a start-up specializing in modern, environmentally-friendly toys and games wit. . .
Porkchops Versus Drumsticks
Jose Sandoval is the administrator of Strunck R&D. Not a true scientist, though he has a working knowledge of everything from quantum mechanics to bioengineering to all the new fields. Teleportation, regenerative medicine, the works. He’s the uber spread sheet man, a magnum bean counter, and Papa Bear for any number of projects underway at the Labs. His office is tucked into a curve in the Strunck Collider, a 25-mile doughnut of double tub. . .
