In a February 2014 interview with Dr. Paul Jacobs, the then CEO of the wireless technology company Qualcomm and now its executive chairman, it dawned on me that there were common threads among the world’s leading innovators that no one had yet defined.
First, it may sound trivial, but I found that most of these guys loved Lego as children and perhaps still do. Larry Page is an adult fan of Lego (or AFOL as the community sometimes refers to itself), and built the housing for the first Google server prototype out of Lego.
