Re: Bobby Inman

There was some mentions that he spend some time in the private sector
since "then". Anybody knows what he was doing?

Pierre Uszynski
pierre@shell.portal.com

> There was some mentions that he spend some time in the private sector
> since "then". Anybody knows what he was doing?
> 
> Pierre Uszynski

He was head of MCC in Austin for several years and then his own
company, a kind of high-tech holding company (Westmark was the name, I
think).

I recall seeing a company selling crypto products, "Ultron," in 1988
or so, and noting the mention that it was a division of Inman's
company, Westmark.

I've followed Inman's career since I first heard of him in 1979,
during the crypto flap, and especially since reading about him in 1982
in "The Puzzle Palace."

--Tim May


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>Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 23:45:44 -0800
>From: Pierre Uszynski <pierre@shell.portal.com>

>There was some mentions that he spend some time in the private sector since
>"then". Anybody knows what he was doing?

Well, part of the time he was heading up MCC, the Austin-based research
consortium.  Someday y'all can buy me a beer and I'll tell you the saga of
my 3.5 years at MCC, about 2.5 of which overlapped with Inman.

But as a leader I'd say his biggest strength was his incredible intelligence
and ability to deal with almost any problem.  He never let *anything* faze
him.  He was a good leader, too, giving MCC just the right profile in the
eyes of the people (corporate CEOs mostly) who were signing our sponsorship
checks.

Biggest weakness: trusting the wrong people.  His "Chief Scientist"
underling was a joke and he let too many of the wrong people do too many of
the wrong things while they worked for him.

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