<div dir="ltr">Two excellent suggestions of CEOs of tech companies with a wide footprint in American business entering the political realm. Thank you, Bill. I wonder if I could frame a narrative between theme as public faces of technology firms as candidates. <div><br></div><div>I'm circling a topic about how we approach expertise in business and technology and how it informs discussions of politics and governance. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Andrew</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --<br>Andrew Meade McGee<br>Corcoran Department of History<br>University of Virginia<br>PO Box 400180 - Nau Hall<br>Charlottesville, VA 22904</div></div>
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<div>Tom Massie, now a Representative from Kentucky, invented PHANTOM while at MIT (he won the Lemelson Student Prize for this) and founded SensAbleTechnologies. </div>
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