rearden

In Atlas Shrugged, Rearden Metal is depicted as the product of the lone genius of Hank Rearden, who defied his own corporate scientists and a made a metal that everyone else considered impossible.

Also, Rearden has been claiming for some time now that they have working demos.

At the time, Hank Rearden was not a lone inventor working in his garage.

No, the closest thing I can think of to Hank Rearden is Tony Stark or Bruce Wayne.

Now that I think about it, Rearden may already have gathered some highly relevant expertise from their experience with OnLive.

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People had similar concerns about cloud gaming, but OnLive (which, note, also came from Rearden Labs) and Gaikai proved it could be done surprisingly well.

The business leaders like Rearden are hard-working, smart, and good looking.

I love reading about entreprenuers who have paid some sort of homage to Rand (his current company was originally named Rearden Steel).

As I recall, Rearden metal was about 10x as strong as the competitors'.

He sounds like Hank Rearden from Atlas Shrugged.

- Hank Rearden Basically a definition of a badass person, created to be the role model for people like me.

Will you give Billions to Hank Rearden to make "Rearden Steel" or to Center for Iron & Steelmaking Research at Carnegie Mellon University?

I think Pitt would be a good John Galt because Galt is, ultimately, a minor character with little "screen time", though I think Pitt may want to play Rearden.

> Ayn Rand’s philosophy suggests that average working people are “takers.” Ayn Rand glorifies working people, like the engineers on the Taggart line, the foremen at Rearden Steel, and Dagny's assistant Eddie Willers.

Doing what you proposed, namely comercializing his invention and "making the world a better place" would have led him through the same agony that Hank Rearden and Dagny Taggart went through, trying to keep things together when they were clearly falling apart.

He's the present day Ellis Wyatt or Henry Rearden, tackling grand projects that others shy away from.

Rearden, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.

While I loathe Ayn Rand I have to give her some credit for capturing accurate human behavior in Atlas Shrugged: the D-Wave skeptics seem to behave exactly like Rearden's detractors.