James Milmo wanted his technology startup, Lynx, to be a home for creative “Renaissance” people; that is, people with high intelligence, creativity, and wide-ranging interests, but not necessarily with formal training in computer programming. James explained, “We hired a lot of Renaissance people who had backgrounds that were unrelated to what they would be doing for us. . . . Our culture was such that we got along with each other, spent a lot of time outside work together. We were a community. . . . People were more excited to be at Lynx because they loved who they worked with.”
