The more you share, more powerful you become

In the late 1970’s, David Schwaab crashed a Hewlett-Packard users group. His boldness caught the eye of an individual who recruited him to work at a small software startup.

Schwaab was employee number nine, and in choosing work over school, he helped grow the company to more than 70 employees before it was acquired by HP in 1981. At HP, he spent the next few years enjoying life as an ‘intrapreneur.’ Wikipedia defines an intrapreneur as an employee “who focuses on innovation and creativity and who transforms a dream or an idea into a profitable venture, by operating within the…