A Triumph of Genius

"Land had made the daring gamble of committing more than half a billion dollars of Polaroid laboratory research funds to the pursuit of his ultimate instant photography system. He did so without having done a single dollar’s worth of market research to determine whether people would actually buy the product. This leap of faith would later be characterized as “the biggest gamble ever made on a consumer product.” Articulating a philosophy that would later become the mantra of Apple’s Steve Jobs, Land proclaimed, “We don’t do market surveys. We create the markets with our products.”"

The third most patents in US history and the hero of Steve Jobs. One of the most technical founders in history and a true visionary.

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