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Langston's founders convinced about 2,000 Negroes to settle there.
As long ago as 1939, Sir John Hicks, one of the founders of modern economics, noted that increasing returns, if tolerated, could lead to the "wreckage" of a large part of economic theory.)
First, he's a founder who is much more a businessman than a technologist--he doesn't like to hear that, but it's true--so he gets to command the respect that founders command within companies, while also having the set of skills, rarely seen in founders, that are required to manage very big companies.
Although the Minneapolis-based company is just a year old, its three twentysomething founders have already got orders from more than 100 retailers around the country.
(A similarly smart decision was made, oddly enough, by the founders of the Lilith Fair tour this year.)